A Study On The Marx And Engels’ Social Security Thoughts And It’s Contemporary Values

With the deepening reform of economic system in our country and the structural changes of society, social security has increasingly become the focus of people’s attention. Combing and digging Marx and Engels social security thought are useful for the exploration of security system of Chinese characteristics and provide theoretical guidance and practical reference for the construction of socialist harmonious society.This article elaborated that Marx and Engels social security thought is the product of criticism of capital society, revealed the development of Marx and Engels social security thought, including three mutually distinguished and interrelated basic stage:preliminary exploration, comprehensive, and theory development. This article summarized the basic content of Marx and Engels social security thought:social security is the inevitable requirement of the production and reproduction of material and labor, the basic objects of social security is social workers in the bottom of the society. Social security fund of capitalist society comes from residual value, social security funds of socialist society comes from material wealth of working people, the social security has two functions," assessed loss" and "compensation and rehabilitation", the essence of social security is maintain basic human survival and development. Refining three distinctive features of the Marx Engels social security thought:time, class and practice character.Marx and Engels social security thought has enriched the Marxism theory treasure, and has important theory value and practical value for contemporary social security construction of Chinese characteristics socialism, Its theoretical value is enriched Marxist theory treasure, laid the basic principles of the social security system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and its practical value is the guide of building a harmonious socialist society, to build socialism justice safeguard mechanism, to narrow the differences between town and country, to maintain social stability.