On Benefits and Politics

Author: Zhang Jianghe
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book employs the theories and methods of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, starting from the needs of reform, stability, and development, to study the issue of interests and politics, which is always a topic of concern and sensitivity to people. Based on the fundamental viewpoints that interests are the value embodied by the subject in the process of fulfilling its needs through certain social relationships, and politics is a set of relationships and activities formed by power entities in a specific society under the condition of a state power core, centered around the authoritative regulation of interests, this book examines the history and current state of research on interests and politics in China and the West, the essence and forms of interests and politics, the laws governing the realization of interests and the conduct of political activities, the basic relationship between interests and politics, the relationship between interest relations and political structures, the utility of interests and political effects, the order of interests and political control, and major theoretical and practical issues in political control, such as authority and obedience, democracy and centralization, rights and obligations. This book provides a reference value for people to understand and address the relationship between interests and politics. The system and viewpoints of this book are original. It is systematic, rational, and highly interdisciplinary, with an in-depth yet accessible explanation of issues, making it a powerful work in political science that has been the result of the author's long-term dedicated exploration, offering many insights.