Mao Zedong's Research On Social Management Thoughts In The Early Days Of New China

With a long standing of thoughts,the social management is complex system engineering.It can be said that the emergence of human society was along with the birth of social management.Marx and Engels,in examining the history of the development of human society,especially on the basis of analyzing and criticizing the drawbacks of the social management of western capitalism,put forward the scientific connotation and essence of the socialist social management thoughts.While Lenin,in the process of leading the Russian revolution and socialist construction,he combined with the new stage and new characteristics of the development of the proletarian revolution in Russia,and gave a further elaboration to the socialist social management thoughts.The Marxist classic writers' social management thoughts had an important influence on the formation of Mao Zedong's social management thoughts in the early days of the founding of new China:he followed their analysis,combined with China's specific national conditions,social practice and international Background,and formed his own unique social management thoughts.During the early decades of the founding of new China,Mao's social management thoughts and practices indeed enriched the theoretical treasure house of Marxist social management thoughts,and provided valuable experiences for the national governance of contemporary Chinese socialism society.To have an in-depth study of Mao's social management thoughts and practices at the beginning of the new China will help us to not only grasp and understand Mao's important contribution on inheriting and developing Marxist social management thoughts as a whole,but also further reveal Mao's historical status in the development of Marxist social management thoughts.Mao's social management thoughts in the early stage of new China had rich theoretical resources.On the one hand,Mao was a person of erudite and informed,and well-read,he was deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese cultures,which contain rich ancient social management thoughts such as "harmonious is precious","governing by ritual","rule of virtue" and so on.On the other hand,during the magnificent new democratic revolutionary,Mao constantly sucked the basic theory of Marxism,and combined the Marxist social management thoughts with the Chinese traditional cultures,and formed a lot of profound social management thoughts after the founding of new China.Since the main job of the social management of the party and government at the beginning of the new China was to consolidate the new regime,transform the old society and carry out the construction of socialist production.Therefore,at that time,Mao's social management thoughts were mainly to bring into correspondence with this task and also deeply expressed his own social construction and management ideas which were developed during the process of exploring how to transform from New Democracy to socialism.The ideas,which were worth thinking by the descendents,including the society should be under the management of the party committee and government only;the government should quickly organize people of the whole country to ensure the labor productivity of socialist production and construction in the form of the residents committees and agricultural production cooperatives;the government should also play the ideological social management function to flexibly apply the ideological and political education work and the mass movement to the initial social management practices of new China.Mao's social management thoughts in the early period of new China had distinctive characteristics.He fully utilized the social management in a "soft" way in the process of social management and exerted the effective functions of ideology.On the one hand,he purified people's thoughts through social opinion and ideological and political education,to make sure that people's behaviors could meet the demands of the times and then to achieve the goal of management;on the other hand,this way of management also effectively prevented the hostile forces' ideological infiltration to the new China.The social management in the form of political mass movement,which was created by Mao,also had obvious Chinese characteristics;this form of governance effectively enhanced the efficiency of social management and people's participation.It is safe to say that some of these ideas still have guiding significance in sticking to and developing the social management of socialism with Chinese characteristics today.Mao's social management thoughts can be analyzed and evaluated from two aspects:scientific dimension and value dimension.From the perspective of scientific dimension,during the practice process of exploring the socialist management,Mao always adhered to combine the current goal with the strategic goal of social management,and insist on the unity of the law of exploration and the contradictions resolutions;when it comes to the value dimension,Mao always managed the society from the fundamental interests of people,while in the meantime,he spared no effort to ensure the dominant position of the people in the social management.In short,the social management thoughts of Mao Zedong in the early period of new China not only inherited and developed the Marxist social management thoughts,but also changed the traditional Chinese social management mode,moreover,based on the special social and historical conditions of the early days of the founding of new China,he combined the basic principles of Marxism with China's real conditions and successfully explored a perfect way to carry out social management which was with the characteristics of the era.Under this circumstance,the new people's democratic regime was consolidated,the national economy was restored,the socialist transformation was successfully completed and the country's industrial development started,and thus laid a good foundation for the stability and development of new China.