Study Of Class Contradictions From The Perspective Of Harmonious Society

The goal of building a socialist harmonious society was first proposed in the "decision" of the CPC’s Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee. From then on, the thought of harmonious society plays a dominative role in our society culture. However, owing to the reform and opening up policy and the rapid development of socialist market economy, contradictions in different social strata and classes resulting from diverse economic benefits, political interests, social order and political deficiency, have been increased and prominent in Chinese society. As a result, how to handle the conflict of interests among the various social hierarchies has been the firstly priority of constructing a harmonious society. To build a socialist society with Chinese characteristics, we must follow the principles of fairness and justice, equality and mutual-benefit, rationalization and orderliness, and overall consideration. To coordinate the contradictions of different social hierarchies, we must insist taking economic construction as the center of development, construct an appropriate and effective coordination mechanism, deepen system reform, strengthen construction of the party’s ruling ability, and enhance national cohesion.Taking Marxism as a guide and absorbing domestic and international related academic achievement, this paper has investigated the impact of social contradictions, and analyzed their characteristics and origin. Through the analysis of contradictions and reasons of the present situation, this paper put forward basic principles and countermeasures for coordinating class contradictions in the perspective of constructing harmonious society.This paper can be divide into four sections:In the first section, the significance of the topic is elaborated, the domestic and foreign related literatures are reviewed, and the research method and innovation points are briefly introduced.In the second section, the involved concepts are accounted firstly. Through the discrimination of classes and strata, and briefly expounding the current several views of social strata division, this paper finally choose reasonable Ten Classes as the appropriate division pattern. With the characterization of Ten Classes, the realistic significance of coordination of each class for building a harmonious socialist society is descripted.The third section has analyzed the manifestation of various social class contradictions between workers and peasants, intellectuals and other sectors, the employer and the employee, the cadres and other classes in our country. Through introducing the characteristics of contradictions, such as prominence of the economic interest contradictions; occurrence of unexpected incidents; antagonism, the root of contradictions are exposed in4aspects:economic, political, lack of social system, and failure of policies. Finally, point out it is how to handle the conflict of interests among the various society sectors that has become the top priority of constructing a harmonious society.In the fourth section of this paper, the basic principles and methods of coordinating classes’ contradictions have been proposed under the perspective of harmonious society.