Mao Zedong's People's Concept And The Contemporary Significance Of Study

Mao Zedong's view on people is an important component of Mao Zedong Thought. It is a kind of ideological system which formed and gradually developed during the process of Chinese socialist revolution and socialist construction. Mao Zedong's view on people is founded on Chinese traditional humanistic thought, western democracy thought and the masses historical view of Marxism,which consistent with the basic principles of Marxist historical materialism and Chinese Circumstance.The paper is divided into three parts concerning the three aspects of Mao Zedong's view on people respectively.Partâ… introduces the sources and forming track of Mao Zedong's view on people. The sources include Chinese traditional humanistic thought, western democracy thought and Marxist classical mass historical view. While the forming track could be divide into five periods: the sprout period, the formation period, the developing period, the period of further development and the tortuous period.Partâ…¡covers the main contents and characters of Mao Zedong's view on people. The main contents have five aspects. That it: the people are the driving force of world history; the human essence is mans social nature; Attention to peoples democracy, uphold the peoples supervision; Serve the people wholeheartedly; Ties between the party and the people. On these we can see the reativity nature, class nature, history nature and mass nature of Mao Zedong's view on people.Partâ…¢considers the historical contributions and the contemporary significance of Mao Zedong's view on people. First,the historical contributions of Mao Zedong's view on people are provides a theoretical rationale for the support of the United Front and provides the theoretical support of the people s democratic dictatorship theory,It provides a theoretical support for the mass line. The significances of Mao Zedong's view on people are: to enrich and to develop the theoretical system of historical materialism; to reveal the power of the socialism construction; to speed up the administrative system reform and to build a service-oriented and clean government; to reflect the interests of the people; to practice people-centered scientific outlook of development and build harmonious society...