Practices And Contemporary Value Of Marx’s Oriental Society Theory

Marx’s Oriental society theory plays an important role in Marx’s social development theory system, which finished in his later years, focusing on Russia, India and China as typical research representatives. Marx’s Oriental society theory is the initiative researches discussing about issues such as these oriental countries’ particular social nature, their development prospects and how to get to the socialist road.As the Europe proletariat revolution is turning down in19th-century, and based on the sympathy for oriental counties who was being colonial by western countries, Marx and Engels turned their vision toward to the east. By analyzing Oriental societies’social structure, economic structure and political structure characteristics, and according to Marx’s theory that the law of human society is diversity in the unity, Marx pointed out that the backward Oriental societies can cross the ’Crafting Gorge’ disaster, by using the developing fruits of the west, and directly transit to socialist society.Under the guidance of Marx’s Oriental society theory, Lenin led the Russian revolution and created the first socialist country in history. Lenin combined Marx’s Oriental society theory with Russian’s actual conditions, and sum up the experiences and lessons from Russian revolution and socialist construction. Lenin enriched and developed Marx’s Oriental society theory, established Lenin’sOriental society theory.When China’s communist party leading the Chinese revolution,those excellent communists represented by MAO zedong, creativelycombined marxism and Leninism with the China’s practice, and thenachieved the first leap of marxism sinicization. They created thetheory of new democracy, and realize the independence of theChinese nation under the guidance of the theory, putting Marx’sOriental society theory into practice in China.However, China’s socialist construction was not always beinggoing well, and since the1980’s, leaders of China such as DENGXiaoping, JIANG zemin and HU jintao, implement great exploration forChina’s socialism development by learning from expeirences andlessons. Meanwhile, a series of major strategic thoughts came out,such like the DENG theory, Three Represents theory and scientificoutlook on development, which constitute a system of theories ofChinese socialism theory，making Marx’s Oriental society theory andpractice to a new histoircal stage.In21st century, the communist party of China continues to inheritand develop the essence of Marx’s Oriental society theory. Forinstance, building a well-off society, making goals that GDP andincome double in10years and so on, is to promote the socialistconstruction in China, and so on, Represented by the spiirt of theEighteenth Congress, and Deepen reform and certain major issuedecision represented by the The Third Plenary Session of theeighteen, are all great practices to promote the socialist construction,and to develop the Marx’s Oriental society theory. This article overviews of Marx’s Oriental society theory firstly,specifically analyzes the formation process of the theory, the theoryorigin, connotation, essence and great significance. Secondly, thearticle analyzes Lenin’s Oriental society theory and MAO zedong’snew democratic theory, respectively, and points out how they putpractice and developed Marx’s Oriental society theory. Finally, thearticle analyzes how Marx’s Oriental society theory guided China’ssocialism theoretical system, especially for the enlightenment ofChina’s deepen reform and accelerate the development, points outits great value for contemporary China’s socialism development.