Human Rights from the Perspective of Marxism

Author: Chen Bo
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive and systematic monograph on Marxist human rights theory. The main content includes the creation of the historical materialist view of human rights, Marx and Engels' perspective on the origin of human rights, and an in-depth critique of the bourgeois "natural rights" theory. It also provides interpretations of the human rights aspects of the important ideas of Marx and Engels; Lenin's ideas on the right of national self-determination, his socialist human rights theory, and the interpretation of human rights in the New Economic Policy; as well as Mao Zedong's and Deng Xiaoping's views on democracy, their thoughts on the right to survival and development, and their theories on peasant human rights, among others. These theories are closely linked to the rich practical efforts of Marxist classics writers in realizing human rights for the proletariat and working masses, fully demonstrating the scientific and practical nature of Marxist human rights theory. They convincingly show that humanistic care based on historical materialism is a fundamental dimension of Marxism.