Marxist Theory of Human Rights and Its Application in China

<正>For a long period in the past as well as for the time being,the issue of human rights is a hot topic for the ideological struggle and the international political and economic struggle.It has become a tool for the United States and some other Western countries to carry out their "Human Rights Diplomacy" ,a real problem for socialist countries to solve urgently and for our country to implement the "people-centered" scientific development.Therefore,a research on Marxist human rights theory and China's practice course and basic experience is significant both theoretically and realistically.First,basic content of Marxist human rights theory In the past,some sort of misunderstanding of the Marxist human rights theory exists in the educational circle and the political circle,who thought the Marxism founder did not expound his own human rights theory,or only in a superficial way.In fact,the Marxist human rights theory is not only in existence,but also shares equal richness and profoundness with other theories.Marx and Engels's early goal,the highest ideal and the ultimate concern are human liberation,which is a human rights question.It passes through the Marxist thought theory throughout,and gets developed by Lenin.With a comprehensive survey of Marxist human rights theory,its basic contents and concepts may be analyzed from the following several aspects.Firstly,the human rights are historical,social and of class nature,rather than inborn,vacuous and transcending class.In Marxist thought,human rights are historical,because they are produced and appear as the enemies of feudal privilege.They are objective requirement of the development of emerging productive relations and the bourgeoisie's demand to seize power.