On Lenin's Thought Of The Economic Ethics During The Period Of The New Economic Policy

At the beginning of 1921, Soviet Russia obtained thoroughly victory of civil revolution war, and went into the stage of economic resumption and development. At that time, the proletariat political power made stronger on political, but the petty-bourgeois economic sectors had the advantage, and bourgeois egoism thought still predominated. In order to restore and develop economy, Lenin believed that Russia should implement the new economic policy based on its realistic economical relations. In the two years of implementation and perfection of the new economic policy, in the realistic interest of the proletariat, Lenin, guided by the Marxism economic ethics thoughts, consciously or unconsciously, according to the Russian objective economical relations, provided a preliminary probe into the ethics development ruler in Russian economic activity under the new economic policy as well as the status and function of ethics in economic construction. He also separately made an explanation on ethics thoughts of production, exchange, assignment and expense in the socialism. Transition period. In terms of production ethics, Lenin believed that the purpose of socialism produce is to meet the demand of masses of workers and peasants, and we should develop variety mode of production for the resumption of Large scale industry .he thought that strict socialism discipline is assurance of production, and we should make full use of capitalism advanced management and technique as production methods. In exchange ethics respect, Lenin believed that merchandise exchange is reasonable way to make the worker-peasant economic alliance stronger, and proper means to make use of abroad capitalism, on the one hand it is in accordance with morality; but on the other hand merchandise exchange may stir up the bourgeois egoism thought which is a breach of ethics, so merchandise exchange have to accept proletariat direction and regulation to maintain proletariat benefits. In allotment ethics respect, Lenin thought that, under the underdeveloped socialism circumstances, we persist in the distribution system that distribution according to work is leading factor, and in the meantime, other distribution methods also have rationality, we should allow the capital,management and technique participate in the distribution of income and allow farmer obtain divided according to capital share, and establishes a system of reward for workers as long as they help to develop socialism economy. In consume ethics, Lenin thought that in socialism society all people who produce wealth can equally consume it, but for the time which has a terrible shortage of consumer goods, it is most important to filling the basic consume needs of workers and peasants. Lenin rebuked waste phenomenon, and initiated consume view of practicing strict economy in order to raise funds for socialism big industry to restore.In the new economic policy period Lenin's economic ethics thoughts inherited and developed Marxism economic ethics thoughts as its application and development in Russia, and initially proposed the economic ethics thoughts of socialism initial stage. Our country is at socialism initial stages, and has the similar historic conditions and the same historical missions with the Russian new economic policy period. Lenin's economic ethics thoughts played vital role in our socialist market economic construction .