Research On The Family Thought Of Marx And Engels And Its Contemporary Value

Family is the basic cell of the society, building a harmonious socialist society, the firstpriority is to build a harmonious family. So far, our country has carried out a series of thepractice of creating harmonious family activities, and made great achievements. But thewhole course of creating a harmonious family has not been built, because of weak basictheory research, less theoretical generalization and harmonious family theory with Chinesecharacteristics. Marx and Engels family thought will provide Chinese characteristics to createa harmonious family with world outlook and methodology basis.This paper, faithful to the original, on the basis of this sort of Marx and Engels familythought. With the literature research, unified history logic and multidisciplinary researchmethods. First, this paper expounds the basic content of Marx and Engels family thought.Secondly, it discusses the harmony’s the essence of Marx and Engels family thought.Harmonious family includes the harmony of family relationship, family and the harmony ofsocial relationships, family relationship of harmony with nature. Finally, it illustrates thebasic principle and method about Marx and Engels to build a harmonious family. Equality offamily relationship is the basic premise of building a harmonious family; the unity of therights and obligations is the important guarantee of building a harmonious family; freepersonality development is the value pursuit of building a harmonious family. Improvingwomen’s status and roles give playing an important role of family education; fully recognizethe family of a variety of functions is the important method of building a harmonious family.Rich content of Marx and Engels family thought in contemporary China has importanttheory value and practical value. With the understanding family’s ideas of Marx and Engels,conducive to the overall grasp of Marxism, is beneficial to carry forward the Marxisttheoretical character of keeping pace with The Times, is conducive to build family theorywith Chinese characteristics, and is advantageous to the rich thought innovation. The purposeof Marx and Engels family though is to build the harmonious family effective ways andmethods in China.