The Rethinking Of Socialism And The Meaning Analysis By Gavin Kitching

The famous British philosopher Gavin Kitching discusses the basic concept of socialism and some thoughts of socialism in the book Rethinking Socialism. The core point of the book is:it may take a long time to build socialism, and the essential premise is the abundance of material wealth, knowledge, skills and thinking ability of citizens to obtain the full development; socialism from capitalism society is inevitable, which is decided by the social and political struggle. Therefore, the historical trend of the socialism replaces capitalism is not changed, but also inevitable. The inevitability of socialism from capitalism performance is:on the economic aspect, highly developed productive forces of capitalism provided the material base for the socialism; social welfare principle effectively promote social fairness, is conducive to the improvement of people’s living standards; to strengthen national economic regulation make the economy work orderly, and laid good economic foundation for socialism. On the political aspect, the new changes of the working class expanded the social basis of the working class, and the ways of fighting appears in more diverse ways; democracy and legal system continue to improve, promote the process of democratization of society.The paper focuses on the realistic way of socialism from capitalism under this inevitability, we call it pre- emptive unionism. Pre-emptive unionism pay attention to upgrade the workers working skills and cultural level, and to participate in the enterpris management in the union of democratic atmosphere, so that the same trade union unite to better safeguard the interests of the working class. This is a better way to establish socialism in a capitalist society. Kitching’s reflection on socialism has important guiding significance to the construction of socialism in china. First, using analytical Marxism to research socialism is good for the understanding of the basic concept of the definition, and affirmed the scientific nature of Marx theory; Second, pay attention to the new changes of the working class, and let the union play its leading role; Third, to strengthen the national macroeconomic regulation and control, and improve the socialist market economic system.