On The Social Basis Of The Developed Countries, The Transformation Of The Socialist Party After World War Ii

From the latter half of the 19th century, the Socialist Party has already experienced nearly a half century of development. In the development process of more than 100 years, the Socialist Party's theory and practice is not immutable, on the contrary, to the guiding principles of pragmatism and pluralism, the biggest characteristic of Western European Socialist Party is to reform their theory and policy, achieve its own restructuring in practice as the development of time and changes of the situation.The Socialist Party so far experienced three major transformations. This paper wants to discuss the question that why should the Socialist Party transform? Is the transformation of the Socialist Party of inevitability and necessity?The main viewpoint of this paper is that the transformation of the Socialist Party is not incidental, but there are profound social and historical roots. After World War II, the capitalist economy, politics, ideology and social structure have undergone profound changes. The rapid development of the capitalist economy has provided the economic base for the transformation of the Socialist Party; the improvement of the capitalist political system provided the political condition for the transformation of the Socialist Party; the changes of the capitalist ideology and values created the culture background for the transformation of the Socialist Party; the changes of the capitalist social structure provided the class basis and mass base for transformation of the Socialist Party.In accordance with the changing circumstances, Socialist Party carried out restructuring actively, so that the party's guiding ideology, goals, characters, economic policies, manners of activity, functions have been changed in order to meet the need of social development, meanwhile the party can still standed in the new historical conditions, and also accessed to new development.On the one hand, the transformation of the Socialist Party means abandon of the principle and compromise to the real systems and the real interests. On the other hand, the transformation is positive self-adjustment in order to adapt to changed political and economic conditions. The spirit of Socialist Party that basing on reality and advancing with the times is worthy of our study.