Engels’s View Of Equality And Its Contemporary Value

Seeking for "equality” is the human eternal topic. After so much suffering, Humans stillkeep faith in equal and firm conviction. It has always been accompanied with thedevelopment of human society to expect and pursue social equality. The equality thoughts ofEngels in the whole human equality ideology have occupied a very important position, whichhave had a significant impact on the development of the contemporary concept of equality. Itis of great guiding significance for the construction of a harmonious socialist society to deeplystudy Engels’s view of equality.Different from any previous equal view, Engels’s view of equality placed equality in thescience of historical materialism and dialectics and thought that the view of equality wasspecific and historical, which was a reflection of a certain social economic foundation. Thedegree of its implementation was conditioned by the level of productivity development andreflected the interest relationships of the certain economic structure. The establishment ofEngels’ view of equality was based on the criticism of bourgeois view of equality and puretheoretical meaning of equality. He exposed the hypocrisy of bourgeois view of equality,analyzed the unique historical and class features of the equality, emphasized the essence ofequality and put forward the way to get the real equality namely communism, whichdemonstrated Engels’s political and scientific equality. At the same time, during thedevelopment of the communist movement and the international workers’ movement inGermany and in order to break the wrong view of equality among working class, Engelsbegan a debate with Lassalle, Turin and Bernstein, which had made the prominentcontribution to the workers’ movement in the correct direction of development. Engels’sequality had become the powerful weapon of the proletariat and the masses of the people fortheir own emancipation.Engels’s view of equality is not only promoted the development of the internationalcommunist movement, the workers’ social status has improved, but in a certain sense ofcontemporary Chinese socialist construction also produced important influence. Guided bythe Engels’s view of equality, generations of Chinese leaders in different historical periods have carried out hard exploration and unremitting efforts to realize the equality ideal of thepeople. During the period of social transformation in the face of fairness argument, to exploreEngels’s view of equality, to solve the current China social development problems ofinequality, and is of significance for the construction of socialist harmonious society.