Modern dialectics

Author: Chen Shanguang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is guided by Marxist philosophy, based in Guangdong, and oriented towards the nation. It explores the major and complex relationships in the process of modernization in Guangdong, and attempts to provide theoretical summaries for significant issues in Guangdong's modernization, offering ideological and theoretical support for advancing China's socialist modernization cause. The book argues for the compatibility of socialism and the market economy, providing systematic theoretical explanations for how socialism can be integrated with the market economy. Starting from the pragmatic line of thought and the revelation of the law of transformation, it demonstrates the scientific nature of Deng Xiaoping's "three-step strategy" and the possibility and reality of Guangdong taking the lead in achieving basic modernization. Employing the principles of dialectical materialism regarding the unity of universality and particularity, as well as individuality and generality, it clarifies the development trends of China's economy under the new situation. From the perspective of flexibly applying dialectical materialism, it summarizes Guangdong's experience in addressing "hardware" infrastructure development, such as transportation, energy, and communications, highlighting the important role and significance of cultural construction in modernization. It proposes that culture is the economy of tomorrow and that cultural construction is the vanguard of economic and social modernization, suggesting new strategies for strengthening cultural development. In revealing the dialectical relationship between sustainable development and environmental issues, it provides an in-depth explanation of the scientific connotation of "development is the hard truth," arguing that solving environmental problems requires a fundamental transformation in economic growth models and ideological concepts. It summarizes Guangdong's philosophically enlightening experiences in addressing environmental issues. In elaborating on the dialectical unity between technological progress and social development, it demonstrates the consistency between socialist theory and technological progress, as well as the inevitable connection between socialist undertakings and technological progress, and so on. These theoretical summaries and elaborations aim to reveal the inherent dialectics of China's modernization process.