On Lenin’s Thought Of Peaceful Coexistence And Its Development In China

Lenin’s idea of peaceful coexistence is one important aspect of Lenin’s thought. After the victory of the October revolution, for the survival and development of the world’s first newborn socialist country led by the proletariat, Lenin put forward the theory of peaceful coexistence and specific strategies according to the complicated international and domestic environment. It has far-reaching historic significance and great realistic meaning.The pursuit of peace is the eternal topic of concern in human society forever. There are still security problems from all sides in present world. How peaceful coexistence is a major issue of universal concern of all countries. In order for peace and development in the world, from the earliest theories of classical writers, the writer explores the theoretical source, development and its application in practice of peaceful coexistence by using the method of comparison, the method of class analysis and the method of literature, looking forward to giving new life to the peace issue of concern of human society and to promoting world peaceful coexistence and common development.Lenin’s idea of peaceful coexistence has not only its unique historical background and the time background; its theoretical foundation is from peace theory of Marxist thoughts. It is enlightened by peace allegations of Russian predecessors and influenced by the theory of sovereignty of the nation states of western society.Throughout the Lenin’s idea of peaceful coexistence, although from apparently look, it is seemingly scattered and messy, you can find the contents extremely rich and complete. This paper mainly studies the following several aspects:the idea of democratic peace; the idea of settlement of disputes by negotiation; the idea of balance of power; the idea of independence, equality, mutual non-interference in the internal affairs; the idea of mutually beneficial cooperation; the idea of peaceful competition and peaceful coexistence in the struggle. In addition, the idea of foreign policy of peace that Lenin consistently pursued embodied in the principle of strong patriotism and the principle of proletarian internationalism.After the founding of new China, it had been widely recognized by the international community that the idea of peaceful coexistence was used for reference by the communist party of China. That the successive collective of leader in our country always adheres to the idea of peaceful coexistence in international affairs promotes the China’s socialist construction and development smoothly, and has achieved one victory after another, created a new situation of socialist country.