Science socialism theory and practice

Author: Gao Fang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Time flies, and things change. Over the past eight years, significant transformations have occurred in worldly, national, university, and personal affairs. The world socialist movement, after enduring the shock and test of the Soviet and Eastern European upheavals, has achieved new development. The wave of globalization has swept across the globe, deepening and highlighting the inherent contradictions of the capitalist world. The construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics has demonstrated remarkable achievements, and China's international status has greatly improved, along with its enhanced role on the global stage. This book introduces four innovations: a new system, new content, new perspectives, and new materials. It does not merely summarize scientific socialism into several principles or discuss them under separate topics, nor does it present scientific socialism in terms of its past, present, and future. Instead, following the principle of integrating theory with practice and intersecting dimensions, it constructs a new system. The most prominent feature of this new system is that it both vertically explains how scientific socialism has experienced three leaps in ideological understanding and formed three theoretical forms (Marxist socialism, Soviet-style socialism, and socialism with national characteristics) over the past 150 years, and horizontally demonstrates how the principles of scientific socialism have been validated in the practices of numerous countries and continuously developed. The book is rich in content and broad in perspective, summarizing the past, analyzing the present, and looking to the future, while China and reflecting on foreign developments, offering a comprehensive view of the world. What has been praised by readers is that the book truly guides itself with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and the Theory of Deng Xiaoping, both correcting deeply rooted "leftist" ideological concepts and avoiding right-wing influences; it analyzes major issues objectively and uses abundant new materials to ensure that its arguments are well-founded. The deep appreciation of the readers has greatly encouraged us.