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The great assertion that "Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era" is guided by the Marxist view of the times, based on the all-round and pioneering achievements and deep-seated and fundamental changes made since the 18th CPC National Congress, and has achieved a historic leap in combining Marxism with China's reality. A profound understanding of the scientific nature of this great thesis is of great significance for accurately grasping the historical position of contemporary China and starting the great journey of Socialism with Chinese characteristics construction in the new era with a firm and confident attitude.
Marx pointed out: "we can't judge such an era of change according to its consciousness;" On the contrary, this kind of consciousness must be explained from the contradiction of material life and the conflict between existing social productive forces and production relations. " Historical materialism holds that the principal social contradiction is the basic motive force and obvious sign of the changes of the times, and constitutes the fundamental scale of the division of the times.
The main social contradictions remain unchanged, the times remain unchanged, and the times change when the main social contradictions change. In German Ideology, Manifesto of Producers' Party, Hired Labor and Capital, Preface to Criticism of Political Economy 1859, Marx divided human history into five social forms: primitive society, slave society, feudal society, capitalist society and capitalist society, which pointed out a bright future for human liberation.
In the economic manuscript of 1857- 1858, Marx directly divided human history into three stages: "human dependence", "human independence based on material dependence" and free and all-round development, taking the degree of human all-round development as the criterion, which provided the main scale for the division of the times.
At the beginning of the 20th century, when the Russian revolution was ready to go, Lenin pushed the grand vision of Marxist view of the times to a more specific situation in order to formulate correct revolutionary strategies. He stressed: "When analyzing any social problem, the absolute requirement of Marxist theory is to bring the problem into a certain historical range.
In addition, if we say a country (such as its national program), we must estimate the specific characteristics that distinguish this country from other countries in the same historical era. Based on the economic, political, social, military and diplomatic development of Russia and the capitalist countries in the world, he put forward the historical orientation of "the era of war and revolution", which provided a comprehensive scale for further dividing the era.
At the end of 1980s, Deng Xiaoping put forward the conclusion that peace and development have become the new theme of the times in the face of changes at home and abroad, which pointed out the direction for the socialist cause at the critical moment in history and developed the Marxist view of the times with the times.
From Marx and Lenin to Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, different time division scales are interrelated and organically unified, and their isomorphism has become the time division standard of Marxism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics's entry into a new era is the result of taking care of reality by applying the Marxist time division standard in the new era.
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