On Mao Zedong's Theory Of Socialist Society Development's Motive Force

Motive force of social development is a basic issue of philosophy of history, and also a key concern for the thinkers from Chinese to foreign and ancient to modern . Focusing on it, the major thinkers gave different answers from their respective standpoint. Marx and Engels absorbed reasonable ingredient from the former thinkers` view on the motive force of historical society development, thought it over in conjunction with the practice of their struggle, then proposed the theory of Co-Functioning. from the macro they scientifically answered the question of the motive force of social development. However, without practicing the socialist society, Marx and Engels didn't make explicitly instruction for the development of the socialist society, as they looked the long process of historical development of human society as a whole to study the dynamics of social development. So the theoretical explorations to the socialism society historically fall on Mao Zedong.During exploring the way of socialist construction, inheriting Marx and Engels'theory of social development's motive power, Mao Zedong proposed theory of impetus of socialist society to summary the new theoretical task which made the outstanding contribution for the Marxism Historical Materialism. For a long time, according to Mao Zedong's Contradiction theory, theorists have taken his theory on motive force as Self-Contradict Motive Theory, ignoring his theory is the cornerstone of the basic contradictions of socialism, and the impetus system which contains economic power, political power, spiritual motivation. The three powers play role in the social life as a whole. This article discuss the issues of Mao Zedong's View on Motive Power of Socialist Society, including its theoretical origin,basic content and its instruction significance to construction of the socialist harmonious society...