Marx’s View Of Equality And Its Contemporary Value

As a kind of value,equality has been concerned by thinkers of ancient and modern.Many thinkers regard equality as one of the highest aspirations of human society.In ancient Greece,citizens of city-states had equal political status and legal rights and could exercise their rights equally.Modern Western thinkers integrate the equality of legal rights into the requirements of establishing a bourgeois state and advocate that everyone has equal political rights.Utopian socialist thinkers criticized the inequality of capitalism and made a genius vision of the future society.Marx’s view of equality is an important part of Marx’s many thoughts.Marx’s view of equality has experienced three stages: germination,development and deepening.In the embryonic stage,Marx initially saw the inequality of personality and identity among people and criticized the abstract principle of equality of all people in law.Through criticizing Hegel’s rationalist view of the state,Marx pointed out that the equal rights given to people by political liberation are one-sided and the principle of equality in the equality of legal rights takes abstract people as the subject.Marx focused on the economic field to find the way of human liberation.Labor alienation promotes the accumulation of private property and causes the confrontation between people.Capitalist private ownership is the root cause of inequality.The development stage and the establishment of historical materialism provided Marx with a new world outlook and methodology for understanding equality.Equality is not an abstract concept,the concept of equality is generated in the way of production and communication in reality.Marx discusses the profound thought of Marx’s concept of equality through criticizing the abstract concept of equality.The dictatorship of the proletariat and the gradual elimination of classes are the conditions for equality.Marx expounded the historical mission of the proletariat to find a class basis for the ideal of equality.In the deepening stage,Marx deeply analyzed the root of inequality in capitalist society.Surplus value reveals the inequality of capitalism.At the same time,Marx looked into the future of social equality.Through the carding of Marx’s view of equality,summed up Marx’s view of equality.Public ownership is the economic premise of equality,eliminating class is the condition of equality,from formal equality to substantial equality is the two stages of equality,and the free and comprehensive development of human beings is the ultimate goal of equality.The characteristics of Marx’s view of equality are class,critical and historical.Marx’s view of equality has profound contemporary value.Adhering to Marx’s concept of equality is helpful to dialectically treat the concept of bourgeois equality.At the same time,Marx’s view of equality provides theoretical support for socialist core values.Equality under socialism with Chinese Characteristics We must adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and stress that the fruits of socialist development belong to the people.Promoting common prosperity embodies the theoretical guidance of adhering to Marx’s concept of equality.At the same time,we have adopted a series of systems and measures in the political,economic,cultural and social fields to eliminate the phenomenon of privilege and the gap between the rich and the poor,provide a more solid material foundation for equality in practice,and ensure that everyone has equal rights and opportunities in the course of their own development.