Deng Xiaoping's Thought Of Seeking Truth From Facts

Seeking truth from facts is the essence of Deng Xiaoping Theory, not only the inheritance and development for Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought, but also the crystallization and theoretical choice for the Chinese revolution and socialist construction. And it is also a philosophy basis and theoretical weapon for socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the15th National Congress report, Jiang Zemin pointed that as the new basis, Deng Xiaoping Theory emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts break the routine and developed the new state of the Marxism. Therefore, there is a problem in great theoretical and practical significance: how to combine the reality of China’s revolution and socialist construction for the seeking truth from facts thought of Deng Xiaoping. This article aims to organizing the theory and history logic from seeking truth from facts of Deng Xiaoping. It is the theoretical characteristics and realistic effects of Deng Xiaoping’s seeking truth from facts thought. Not only does it help to explain the Marxist philosophy’s theory quality in seeking truth from facts of Deng Xiaoping, it is also the practice and theoretical basis for the advance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the development of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.The article contains three parts:Part one, the origin of seeking truth from facts of Deng Xiaoping Theory. In this part, there are two aspects for analysis:theoretical source and practical basis. First, derived from Marxism, it means inherited the practice philosophy in world outlook, inherited Concrete analysis of concrete problemin methodology, and inherited the thought of Humans’ all-round and unrestrained development in values; Second, derived from Mao Zedong Thought, it inherits mainly Mao’s thought just like everything from the reality, integrate theory with practice, investigation. Third, derived from his specific practice, especially the theoretical thinking about China characteristics socialism modernization construction after the third session of the eleventh central committee of the party. Part two, the theoretical characteristics of seeking truth from facts of Deng Xiaoping Theory. In this part, it summarizes probably the characteristics in three aspects:First of all, this article expounds the unity of seeking truth from facts and emancipating the mind, it means the dialectical relationship of these two thoughts, and it is the biggest highlight about seeking truth from facts of Deng Xiaoping. Secondly, this article expounds the unity of seeking truth from facts and practice criterion, it means the dialectical relationship of seeking truth from facts and practice criterion. Finally, this article expounds the unity of seeking truth from facts and the law of social development.Part three, the theory reflects and realistic effects about seeking truth from facts thought of Deng Xiaoping. This article analyses some theories, just like Deng Xiaoping’s socialism essence theory, primary stage of socialism theory, reform and opening-up theory, market-directed economy theory, socialism spiritual civilization construction theory, from these theories, we can know that as the unity of world outlook, methodology, and values, how seeking truth from facts run through the socialist construction and any other theories, and we also can know that it can promote the socialism with Chinese characteristics and the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics keep on moving.