Yang Xianzhen's "Unified Economic Base Thesis" And It's Significance

Yang Xianzhen (1896.7-1992.8) is a famous Marxism philosopher, theoretician, educationist of China in the 20th century. From the middle of 20th century to the early eighties stage, with Great Spirit, he wrote a large number of treatises, leave us the abundant meaningful material. Especially during 50-60 times, as one of the main three hosts of the three tremendous influence philosophy discussion, he participate in directly to some great philosophy discussion of issue. This text carries on historical and logical investigation to Yang Xianzhen"Unified Economic Base Thesis "and It's deep influence to significance.Our country announced the general line for the transition period in 1953, the theory circle concentrated on studying Stalin's"language knowledge question of Marxism " and general line, involve of our country new democracy economic base and superstructural issue of society at learning process, then caused fierce dispute. In about transition period economic base discussion of issue, someone put forward "single economic base theory", "have basic theory", "stage theory" and "many kinds of economic theory" ,etc. Yang Xianzhen set out with distinct concept and concreted on China's national conditions of analysis of economic base, had put forward the famous " comprehensive economic base theory ".He thinks economic base is the total of the whole relations of production of the society. Five totals of relations of production in the transition period, commit the whole society unified economic base. The essence of "comprehensive economic base theory ", is to admit the five state economy exist in the leadership of economic sector .It represents that the strong hope of socialist transformation actively and reliably in along period.Yang Xianzhen fully discussion of the economic base in transition period embodies his deep understanding and strong concern about complicated actual life to the China's actual conditions. His"comprehensive economic base theory"embodies three major characteristics outstandingly: First, adhere to thorough materialism, have theory quality of pioneering and inventing. Second, comprehensive to follow materialist dialectics, proposed the economic dialectics that"the balance is developed ", have revolutionary spirit of telling the truth bravely. Third, insist on the long period of time and iterance of struggle, have the spirit of helping the people, noble sentiment that people are the first. Yang Xianzhen's comprehensive economic base thought has far-reaching influence on setting-up of our country's contemporary basic economic system and another construction of the economic system reform, also there is a positive meaning to the setting-up of the present harmonious society.