Marx’s Labor Equality Thought And Its Contemporary Interpretation

Marx’s labor equality thought is the combination of his labor view and equality view.Equality,as an important social ideology,is a principle to deal with labor relations,shape labor spirit and guide the direction of labor development.As the view of objective practice,labor is the internal power and important measurement of equality realization’s standard.Therefore,it can be seen that exploring and studying Marx’s idea of dynamic equality has a strong theoretical significance.Similarly,employment is the basis of livelihood.It is also necessary to practice Marx’s thought of labor equality by upholding the status of workers and ensuring high-quality employment using the principle of "equality" in socialist core values.Therefore,this paper takes Marx’s thought of labor equality as the research object,and interprets its theoretical source,development and evolution,main content characteristics,and based on the socialist practice of our country.It makes contemporary explanation on the process of sinicization,existing difficulties and problems,solutions of Marx’s thought of labor equality.From the theoretical sources,Marx’s thought of labor equality has three sources.Including the labor dialectics and equality of classes in classical philosophy,which broken through the abstract understanding of equality in ancient Greek philosophy and medieval scholasticism.The initial attempt is to shift from idealism to materialism,which enlightens Marx to recognize equality from labor practice.Including the labor value theory,division of labor and equal exchange principle proposed by classical political economy have been developed for Marx from economic relations.It’s obvious that the analysis of labor equality laid a theoretical foundation and became a sharp weapon for him to uncover the false and false equality of capitalism;the vision of labor equality outlined by utopian socialism and accumulated practical experience finally became the direct source of Marx’s vision of labor equality in the future communist society.From the perspective of historical evolution,Marx’s thought development stage experienced three period,including germination initially,formation and maturity.In early stage,Marx encountered the dilemma of labor equality,realized that capitalist countries and laws did not reflect the equal demands of workers,then he began to seek solutions from material interests.In the initial formation period,he transcended the vague alienation labor,firmly established the overall perspective of practical position and human history,and put the labor inequality into the opposite level of labor and capital.In the mature period,Marx took capitalist production process as the research object,analyzed the internal root of labor inequality with the analysis of labor commodity as the main line,and made scientific assumption on the construction of labor equality relationship.From the main content and characteristics,labor equality is an important production relationship.Marx insisted the position of dialectical materialism and historical materialism,used the scientific theory of labor value and surplus value to define the main content of labor equality from the aspects of ownership,distribution system and the relationship between people.In his view,capitalist private ownership is the internal resistance of labor equality,socialist distribution according to work is the initial realization of labor equality.On this basis,he finally positioned the goal of labor equality as labor liberation in Communist society,which is also the ideal destination of human relations in production relations.From the perspective of main characteristics,Marx believed that labor equality is a dynamic process of continuous development and evolution.He saw that there is a logical consistency between the death of capital and the realization of labor equality,advocated relative equality,tried to achieve unity in opposition,and regarded the realization of labor equality as a process of solving contradictions and self sublation,These characteristics fully confirm the scientific and critical nature of Marxist labor equality thought.Finally,from the perspective of contemporary interpretation,through the close combination with the practice of socialism in China,Marx’s thought of labor equality can be truly inherited and developed.The establishment of new China has created system conditions for ensuring the equal right of survival and development of workers,and gradually met the low-level requirements of equality of labor rights;after reforming and opening up policy introduced the market mechanism,the "bourgeois rights",which made the principle of equal distribution according to work with more labor realized initially;while the new era continued to insist on the development of production and created material conditions for labor equality.It provides more opportunities for workers to develop freely and comprehensively,directly refers to the ultimate goal of labor equality.However,because our country is still in the primary stage of socialism,there are still some problems such as the legal definition and system design of labor equality,the multiple challenges to realize the distribution according to work,the three significant differences and the labor discrimination,etc.,which have not fully met the requirements of Marx’s thought of labor equality.Facing these challenges,we can continue to adhere to and develop Marx’s thought of labor equality in terms of improving and implementing policy and regulations,leading the reform of distribution system with the concept of shared development,promoting education of the concept of technological revolution and labor equality,and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in the socialist system with Chinese characteristics,which can make process of moving equality to China’s wisdom and programme.