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Title:: On the Value Aspect of Socialism and the Historical Development of Socialist Core Values

Keywords:: connotation of socialism; core values of socialism; specification of the values

Abstract:: In different historical periods and social conditions, people form different understandings of socialism, which lead to the difference in their pursuits of socialist core values. However, those different understandings of the essence and values of socialism are closely related to each other, showing a noticeable feature of historical consistency. The basic definition of the essence and core values of socialism germinated in the utopian socialist ideology. Overcoming the limitations of utopian socialism, the scientific socialism first specified the defining features of socialism, its objectives and the means to achieve its goals; and thus established the socialist core values. In the process of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, through learning the historical experience of the Soviet socialism the Communist Party of China has developed a clear picture of the essence of socialism, specified the socialist core values and put them into practice, thus achieving a breakthrough in the understanding of the essence of socialism and its core values.