“社会主义的本质,是解放生产力,发展生产力,消灭剥削,消除两极分化,最终达到共同富裕。”这是邓小平同志以马列主义毛泽东思想为指导,深刻总结社会主义革命和建设的历史经验,紧密结合当代中国实际和时代特征而得出的科学结论,坚持和发展了马克思主义,对于我们认识什么是社会主义,怎样建设社会主义,具有重大的理论意义和现实意义。 认识事物的本质是一个十分重要的问题,唯物辩证法的主要任务就是要认识事物的本质。列宁说:“就本来意义说,辩证法就是研究对象的本质自身中的矛盾。”这就是说,辩证法的主要任务是研究事物的本质,研究决定事物本质的矛盾。 生产力和生产关系的矛盾,经济基础和上层建筑的矛盾,是人类社会的基本矛盾,也是社会主义社会的基本矛盾,是决定人类社会本质的矛盾,也是决定社会主义,社会本质的矛盾。邓小平同志关于社会主义本质的论述,充分说明了社会主义社会与历史上一切剥削阶级处于统治地位社会的基本矛盾的本质区别,充分说明了社会主义社会与资本主义社会的基本矛盾的本质区别。 在资本主义社会和一切剥削阶级处于统治地位的社会中,无论其体现社会基本矛盾的具体制度如何不同,剥削方式如何发展,手段如何变化,方法如何“进步”,其本质都不是消灭剥削,消除两极分化,达到共同 “The essence of socialism is the liberation of productive forces, the development of productive forces, the eradication of exploitation, the elimination of polarization and the ultimate attainment of common prosperity.” This is Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s historical experience of profoundly summarizing the socialist revolution and construction guided by Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. Combining the scientific conclusions drawn by the characteristics of contemporary China and the times and adhering to and developing Marxism, it is of great theoretical and practical significance for us to recognize what is socialism and how to build socialism. Understanding the essence of things is a very important issue. The main task of materialist dialectics is to recognize the essence of things. Lenin said: “In its original meaning, dialectics is the contradiction in the essence of the object of study.” This means that the main task of dialectics is to study the nature of things and study the contradictions that determine the essence of things. The contradiction between productive forces and the relations of production, the economic foundation and the superstructure are the basic contradictions of human society as well as the basic contradictions of the socialist society, the contradictions that determine the nature of human society and the contradictions that determine the nature of socialism and society. Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s exposition of the essence of socialism fully illustrates the essential difference between the socialist socialism and the fundamental contradictions of all the dominant exploiting classes in history and fully demonstrates the essential differences between the socialist and capitalist social contradictions. In a society dominated by capitalist society and all the exploiting classes, no matter how different the specific systems that reflect the basic social contradictions, how the modes of exploitation are developed and how the means are changed, the essence of them is not to eliminate exploitation and eliminate Polarization, achieve common