Deng Xiaoping 's Equality Thought And The Construction Of Harmonious Society

Nowadays, the rapid development of national economies make the equality problem becomes a global problem. With the implementation of more than thirty years of China’s reform and opening-up policy, the economic, political, social, cultural inequalities mushroom everywhere, which have attracted wide attention from the masses. Today, China all-round construction of the harmonious society is the most important goal of the government, also the source of the People’s happiness. The aim of the harmonious society is just eliminate the existence of a wide variety of social inequalities.People have never stopped the pursuit of equality in the long history. From the of primitive clan concept of equality to ancient Greece brilliant glory of equality thought, from the Roman Law’s popularization during the Roman, to the medieval transcendental concept of equality, from Renaissance humanistic concept of equality, to the western thinkers’ discussions in the 18 th Century, and then to the revolution and the development of the bourgeois, as an important part of human society has not been idle for Western equality issues footsteps. The west, as a place with a long history of civilization, has made important contributions to the development of human culture. Similar results have been achieved in China. With a long-term thinking and in-depth study, from the Confucianism’s idea of equality, to the claims combined Chinese and Western thoughts from modern enlightenment thinkers to save the Nation, the course of the pursuit of equality of the human beings is sparkling and colorful. The development history of human society, in a certain sense, is the collision and conflict of equal and unequal power and ideas, which made a mutual-struggle and stirring history.Deng Xiaoping is a great Marxist. His equality theory has faced the realities of China, which succeed in combining theories of Marx, Engels, and Mao Zedong. Deng has enriched and developed Marx’s view of equality about the basis of the socialism, the practice of reform and open-up policy, and made important influence for the future. Today’s various disharmonies have direct relation to equality problems. At this time, reviewing, learning and researching Deng Xiaoping’s theory of the equality, and exploring the philosophical thoughts of Deng’s methodology, may greatly facilitate the construction of social harmony in China.