Mao Zedong’s Social Management Thought And Its Contemporary Enlightenment

The benign operation and coordinated development of the society can’t dowithout scientific and effective Social management. The study goal of Mao Zedong’ssocial management thought is to further facilitate the study of the law of socialmanagement, provide theoretical direction and practical reference for the practicalproblems of social management in the current and socialist harmonious societyconstruction.The study contents include:(1) The source of Mao Zedong’s social managementthought. The formation and development of Mao Zedong’s social managementthought shows that it is based on specific thought, including the study and acceptanceof the social management thought in Marxism-Leninism, and the selective inheritanceof the social management thought in traditional Chinese culture. In other words, thetheoretical source of Mao Zedong’s social management thought is Marxist-Leninistsocial theory, when Mao Zedong’s social management thought base on the socialmanagement thought in traditional Chinese culture.(2)The main contents of MaoZedong’s social management thought. Make the people recognition of and compliancewith social norms by internalizing social norms into the subjective beliefs and valuesof the members of society in way of propaganda and indoctrination. Guide andrestrain the people’s social behavior in way of legal and disciplinary norms means.Purify the social environment by improving social deviant behavior completely inway of administrative and educational means. Balance the interests of the differentaspects, understand and handle the various contradictions in the social developmentprocess correctly, and make effort to change the negative factors into positive factors.Care for solution of social problems such as unemployment, poverty, bureaucracy andmass incidents governance.(3) The features and the contemporary enlightenment ofMao Zedong’s social management thought. The main purpose of Mao Zedong’s socialmanagement thought is to resolve social conflicts in people-oriented, pragmatic andintegrated way. The features of Mao Zedong’s social management thought areprominent, but there still exist limitations when the era changed. However, its positivesignificance is the main aspect; it has effectively guided the practice of socialmanagement in history. Although today’s social environment has undergone hugechanges and social management practices have made new progress both in breadth and in depth, the intrinsically meaning of social management has no change. Thus,some of the important contents of Mao Zedong’s social management thought are veryvaluable to current social management practices. Lead the civic culture constructionby socialist core values, coordination in the new era of interest properly, resolve socialconflicts Timely, focus on the protection and improvement of people’s livelihood,Prevention and reduction of social problems essentially, Close the relationshipbetween the party and the mass, keep away risk and promote social harmony,.etc. Allthese are contained in the main enlightenment in Mao Zedong’s social managementthought.Based on the guidance of the dialectical materialism and historical materialism ofMarxism, using the analysis method of the unity of history and logic, comparing andanalyzing, as well as the combination of theories and practice. Analyzing andresearching the social management thought of Mao Zedong, we can draw a conclusion:The study is of great significance to further facilitate the study of the law of socialmanagement, solve the practical problems of social management in the current andconstruct socialist harmonious society.