Studying On Mao Zedong's Ideology Of Consumption Economy

Mao Zedong had many brilliant expositions in consumption when he was leading Chinese revolution and socialist construction practice, and which idealized his personally unique consumption economy thoughts.Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy is full of connotation, however, the research in academics is still weak currently, even some misunderstangdings about it. This article will proceed from the origin of Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy, seizing its core, overviewing the contents comprehensively, analysing its progress and limitations and excavating its contemporary value, so as to build on the systematic studying on Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy.Research found that, Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy is based on Chinese tradition consumption thoughts, through integrating the Marxist consumption theory with China's concrete practice and learning Lessons from the Soviet Uion's consumption practice, then formed and developed gradually. It regard "ensuring supply, improving the livelihood of the people" as the core. The concrete content includes: On the identification of the relationship between production and consumption, Mao Zedong suggested improve people's livelihood through developing the production, and coordinate the relationship between the two major catagories; On the relationship between distribution and consumption, Mao Zedong opposed absolute egalitarianism and excessive disparity, concerned about the collective welfare, and promoted sharing consumption goods; On the relationship between exchange and consumption, Mao Zedong generally approved the commodity economy, and recognized the role of circulation in the process of consumptive realization; On Consumption custom, he advocated economy, opposed extravagance and waste; and demanded transform outmoded habit and custom, must reform the past spending habits especially; On the relationship between population and people's consumption, Mao Zedong also had his original opinions; Meanwhile, he paid high attention to the spiritual consumption.Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy is the guiding ideology for people's living consumption before reform and opening up, and also the theoretical cornerstone for the CCP making consumption policy, which has extensive and profound theoretical significance and has made many achievements improving the people's material and cultural level in practice. Although there were some fallacy in Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy and his practice, in which practicing austerity, emphasizing spiritual consumption, and pursuiting fairness consumption, etc remain in valuable today. So it's significance for us to sum up and evaluate Mao Zedong's ideology of consumption economy, not only for solving China's current consumption economic issues, but also for establishing and improving the socialist consumption theory system.