Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.7, 2018

The Original Contribution of Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind to Historical Materialism

(Abstract)

Liu Tongfang

Building a community of shared future for mankind is a great conception marked by strategic loftiness and realistic urgency as well as a part of socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It fully demonstrates the pursuit of ideals and the intellectual spirit of contemporary Chinese Communists. The conception of building a community of shared future for mankind is a Chinese solution to global governance problems that demonstrates Chinese wisdom and the Chinese approach; it represents an original contribution to the development of historical materialism in the 21st century. In the theoretical vision of historical materialism, the community of shared future for mankind is a global form of the development of human society, a process and prospect of boosting, with concerted efforts based on the basic orientation towards and values of mutual benefits and win-win situations, the development of globalization. Its standpoint is the philosophical position of “human society,” and it promotes the true “universal communication” of man to create human interests formed at a higher level of “commonality,” enhancing the balanced development of the global productive forces on the basis of a change in the global governance system and laying solid material and spiritual foundations for the realization of prospects of a better world for human society. The Chinese wisdom of building a community of human destiny has had an unprecedented theoretical effect on the development of historical materialism and created a new path for its interpretation, bestowing on it a new way of thinking; at the same time, through the constructive interpretation of a community of shared future for mankind, historical materialism has attained its own theoretical goals and value pursuits and will necessarily become a constructive world view in the era of globalization.