A Study On Deng Xiao Ping’s Thoughts On The Relationship Between Socialism And Capitalism

Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts on the relationship between socialism and capitalism is not only an important part of Deng Xiaoping’s theory but also plays an important role in the system of Deng Xiaoping’s theory.After inspecting the practice of China’s the reform and opening up policy in the latest 40 years,we can find that with the guidance of Deng Xiaoping’s theory,we have correctly handled the relationship between socialism and capitalism.Meanwhile,we also boldly absorb and draw lessons from all the outstanding civilization achievements of human society,including the developed capitalist countries.So today we could make great achievements on the socialist construction.Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts on the relationship between socialism and capitalism is based on the "two systems" relationship theory of classical Marxist writers,such as Marx,Engels,Lenin,etc.,especially the understanding and practice of Mao Zedong,the core leader,and other first generation of Chinese communist party leaders,which provides an important prerequisite for the formation of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts on the relationship between socialism and capitalism.At the same time,Deng Xiaoping’s own experience and practice,the actual needs of building a kind of socialism with Chinese characteristics,and the change as well as the development of the age all facilitate the practical basis and external conditions for the formation of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts on the relationship between socialism and capitalism.Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts on the relationship between socialism and capitalism can be summarized into two aspects: one is that socialism and capitalism are opposite to each other.There is a substantial difference between the two systems,which is embodied in the areas such as the economic system,political system,values the models of modernized roads and goals;the other is that socialism and capitalism are inseparable.They utilize as well as learn from each other.Based on the fact that China’s backward economy and the need for speeding up the modernized constructions,What Deng Xiaoping stressed more is that we should absorb and learn the outstanding achievements of civilization from the developed countries.The two systems involved in Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts about the relationship between socialism and capitalism can benefit and utilize each other.The private ownership economy can be an important supplement to the socialist economy,which can develop the socialist market economy and “one country two systems".As a consequence of the addition of the new contents to Marx’s "two systems" theory,Marx doctrine has been greatly enriched and developed.The concrete application of this thought in the process of China’s reform and opening up and modernization has played a tremendous role in promoting the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics and accelerating the development of the socio-economy.