| "What is socialism and how to build it?" This is a significant and realistic question facing all the proletariat political parties of all nations of the world, especially. And there emerges a sensitive and unavoidable question how to understand capitalism in the process of answering the above question. Although lots of Marxists before Deng Xiaoping had studied and discussed this question, they hadn't answer it in a perfect way due to the limitation of time and condition, and their theories remain to be perfected and developed. Ever since the reformation of China, Deng Xiaoping, the core of the leading body of the second generation of the CPC, kept in the leading position of development when answering the question of "What is socialism and how to build it", which is the theme of Deng Xiaoping's Theory, and with a high spirit of emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping with the time, exploiting and innovating, and in accordance with the changing and development of the situation of the world and our country as well, he raised the new issue of "understating what is capitalism" and made a significant theoretical innovation in understanding it.With the ending of World War II and the emergence of the Third Technique Revolution, capitalism grew from free capitalism of Marx's time and the private capitalism of Lenin's time into a stage of capitalism of government monopoly, and the degree of government monopoly became higher and higher. Thus, capitalist countries had a chance to recover and develop and they became once more prosperous. The development and changing of capitalism, the frame of reference of history, demands that all the communist parties of the world make a new judgment and a scientific response. It is exactly in this particular time and condition that Deng Xiaoping started his creative road of theories to understand capitalism. It is not difficult to find through careful study of this process that his achievement of theoretical innovation in understanding capitalism was made in the specific time condition and it is an epoch-making and logical thinking. In a specific way, there are four factors that stimulate Deng Xiaoping to exercise further theoretical thinking in understanding capitalism: The first factor is the socialist reality of the world after spanning the "gorge of kfd". The second one is the long-time misunderstanding of capitalismby the CPC. The third factor is the theme of Deng Xiaoping's Theory- "what is socialism and how to build it". The last factor is Deng Xiaoping's personal feelings and his extraordinary experiences. The changing of the objective world and the profound cognition of it made it possible for Deng Xiaoping to have a broader space of thinking in his theoretical innovation in understanding capitalism.In the process of "making it clear what is capitalism", Deng Xiaoping inherited the stand, method and basic viewpoint of Marxists in understanding capitalism on the one hand, and on the other hand, he broke away from the old concepts and rules and was preeminent above his predecessors on the base of the understanding of capitalism by former Marxists, and he put forward his unique ideas in which we even see their great realistic significance to the socialist construction of modernizations with Chinese characteristics and even to the international communist movements. For example: Capitalism is superior to feudalism; take in all the advantages of civilizations of capitalism with courage; there is a planned economy in capitalist countries and there are markets in socialist countries, and both plans and markets are methods to develop economy; make use of foreign intelligence; although we are now building a socialist country, in fact, we are still far from that. Only in the middle or next century when we reach the level of economy of middling developed countries can we say that we are really building a socialist country and say confidently that socialism is superior to capitalism; science, technology and management of production are classless im themselves, etc... |