Development is critical for Today’s Chinese society and willstill be crucial in the future. Comprehensively deepening reform andpromoting the modernization of national governance systems andgovernance capacity are closely related to stable socialdevelopment. As for the development of Chinese society, the basicprinciples of Marxism and historical materialism must be applied toobserve and analyze China’s social reality. As the founders ofMarxism, Marx and Engels made a very systematical research ofsocial development.Through in-depth study of the core content of Marx and Engels’theory of social development, we can have a deeper understandingof original form of Marxist theory of social development, a fully andaccurately understanding of Marxism and more confidence topersist Marxism, which also attach great significance to itsapplication into the construction of socialism with Chinesecharacteristics in a effective way. Moreover, the study can stabilizethe theory guiding position of Marxism, which can be used toobserve and analyze the development of Chinese society for abetter grasp of the laws of social development. Besides, the study help us closely integrate the basic principles of social developmentwith current status of socialism with Chinese characteristics, thuspushing forward the development of Chinese society for the benefitof the Chinese people and making our national contribution to theworld.From the perspective of the history of Marxism, this paper ismainly based on the classic texts of Marx and Engels on socialdevelopment and strives to explore the true meaning of the originalin the original thought of Marx and Engels and social development.It discusses the main contents of five aspects of socialdevelopment theory of Marx and Engels from the social formationand structure theory, teleology of social development, laws ofsocial development theory, theory of world history, and socialdevelopment across the theory. In virtue of this, three aspects areillustrated to explain what we can get from Marx and Engels’ theoryof social development for promoting the our society:(1) considerthe people as measure of value of the development of socialism withChinese characteristics;(2) adhere to socialism with Chinesecharacteristics in primary stage of socialism;(3) promote socialdevelopment of socialism with Chinese characteristics in theprocess of globalization and achieve the great rejuvenation of theChinese dream. |