Research On The Inheritance And Development Of Marx And Engle’s Clean Thoughts

Eradicating corruption is a global and historical challenge. Constructing a clean government and combating corruption are two sides of the same issue, directly related to the future and destiny of the Marxism political party and socialism. In the course of the creation of the Marxist theory, the establishment of the proletarian party and the leadership of the proletarian revolution to overthrow the government of the bourgeoisie, Marx and Engels, the proletarian revolutionary advisers, have summarized the experiences and lessons in the political history of humankind from both positive and negative aspects with dialectical materialism. Furthermore, they clearly put forward the necessity of the proletarian party and the government to strengthen the fight against corruption and to build a clean government, with the purpose of maintaining the purity of the party, preventing the bureaucracy and the occurrence of all kinds of corruption. Though Marx and Engels’ ideas on government and anti-corruption struggle were presented under specific historical conditions, however, they still have an important theoretical guidance on the current construction of the clean government and the struggle against corruption.It has been an inevitable problem for the Communist Party of China to exclude the corrupting influence. In the first thirty years of the People’s Republic of China, corruption has been relatively mild, but it has undergone a significant change after the reform and opening up. With the advance of China’s modernization and economic growth, the corruption has spread and extended. Undoubtedly, the Party and the government have never let down the efforts of anti-corruption, moreover, through the exploration; they endeavored to open up a path in line with China’s national conditions and clean government and constantly enriched and developed the thoughts of Marx and Engels. Since the 18 th National People’s Congress, the collective leadership of the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to clean party building and combat corruption, and brought it to a new level by proposing a series of new ideas, new theories and new measures. In such background, it will have an important practical significance to promote clean government and combat corruption and achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream by carefully studying the theory of Marx and Engels’ clean thinking, exploring the background conditions, and researching its scientific contents.This paper analyzes the inheritance and development of Marx and Engels’ thought of clean government from three parts. In the first part, the formation of honest thoughts of Marx and Engels and its main content has been introduced systematically. Through the research of ancient Greece, medieval theology, Renaissance and bourgeois ideology and the practice of the Paris Commune, Marx and Engels’ theory of clean government has gradually formed. They clearly presented that the root of corruption lies in private ownership and the idea of establishing the basic “cheap government”. Furthermore, supporting open government, strengthening the supervision of public power and other anti-corruption measures have also been proposed. The second part mainly discussed the inheritance and development of the thought of Marx and Engels’ in China. With Mao Zedong as the founding leader of the period, Deng Xiaoping as the chief architect of the reform and opening period, Jiang Zemin as the core of the period keeping pace with times, Hu Jintao as the centre of the scientific development period and Xi Jinping as the core of reform and innovation period, the basic ideas and measures of anti-corruption struggle demonstrated by each generation collective leadership have come down in one continuous line with Marx and Engels’ thought, and can be entitled to a new interpretation and innovative development based on various characteristics of the times at different stages. In the last part, the enlightenment of current clean government building in China through the theories of both Marx and Engels’ and the thoughts in different times of China has been presented, and the solutions of struggling against corruption in terms of education, the rule of law, democracy, and supervision have been enumerated.