Happiness And Its Contemporary Value Of Marx

2012Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day double early, CCTV launched the "voice of the people to go grass roots" special investigation program "What is happiness?." CCTV walking around grassroots reporters were dispatched to interview including urban white-collar, rural farmers, scientific experts, corporate workers, including thousands of workers in all walks of life, a time of a "you happy? What do you think is happiness?" become a favorite asked questions.Thirty years since the reform and opening up, China’s rapid economic and social development, has become the world’s second largest economy, people’s living standards have improved dramatically, but as more and more rich people’s material life, the spirit of the world but often feel empty and loss sustained GDP growth does not return people to enhance well-being but often feel unhappy about the data also shows that income and happiness gradually deviated from the trend of average annual growth speed from1979to2005GDP was9.6%urban and rural residents per capita disposable income of the average annual growth rates of6%and7%; But according to CASS released the "2007China Social Situation Analysis and Prediction",2004,2005,2006Chinese urban and rural residents overall happiness sense were3.79,3.73,3.64, declined. Secondly, in the course of China’s planned economy to a market economy in transition, money worship, hedonism, individualism and other erroneous concept of happiness began to breed, believing this life, the greatest happiness is to satisfy material desires, the pursuit of a variety of sensual enjoyment, eat, drink and even become life’s major unique content, money, power, status, become a measure of the value of a person’s label. This is extremely wrong and narrow understanding of power and money and status will certainly be happy? The fact that the opposite may happen, how many people get these when they caught a greater emptiness and boredom, gold lost in a drunken fan life. Finally, some local governments simply the pursuit of GDP growth, the deterioration of the local ecological environment at the beginning of2013, North China a serious continuous fog and haze, and seriously endanger people’s health, we must ask to live in high-rises modern metropolis, people enjoy modern civilization really happy? The answer is obvious, even the least healthy are not guaranteed, what about happiness.About happiness, always seems a much discussed topic often new, but what is happiness, how to be happy? Ancient and modern philosophers in his own time, by thinking research shows many different answers, formed their own distinctive concept of happiness, Marx insisted methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism view of the world, has always been committed to working to achieve the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the main body of the people, critical thinking inherited the essence of the various theories about happiness since ancient Greek and Roman times, the creation of a scientific, comprehensive Marxist concept of happiness. In China today, although the social economy has made a great leap forward, but overall, our country is still a developing country, is still in the primary stage of socialism, the development of imbalance and there is no fundamental change in urban and rural areas People in eastern and western coastal mountains there is a gap in living standards, especially in the present stage of China’s widening wealth gap makes people’s understanding and the pursuit of happiness is also a hierarchy, there are differences, but also in the full liberalization of the market Under conditions of the economy, most people seek material benefits, but also by the money worship, hedonism, individualism, and a variety of Western values, the impact of life, so happy with the Marxist concept to guide people’s understanding of happiness, establish correct concept of happiness, health and overall development for the realization of the individual, promote scientific development of society, the harmonious development and an early realization of the unity of all the Chinese people have a dream of China is extremely important.