论中产阶层在构建社会主义“和谐社会”中的稳定器作用——以亚里士多德的社会稳定观为题引

On Middle Class's Function of Keeping Social Stability to Construct Harmonious Society——with the Preface of Aristotle's Viewpoint of Social Stability

古希腊思想家亚里士多德在其名著《政治学》中提出,中产阶层不发达是政治不稳定和独裁政体代替民主政体的根源。亚里士多德的以中产阶层为基础的社会稳定观给了我们这样一个现实启示:一个真正现代化的、稳定的国家必然是以中等收入阶层为主体,高、低收入者所占比重都不大的“橄榄型”构成,也就是中间大、两头小的社会结构。因而可以说,中产阶层占据主体地位是现代社会保持稳定的“安全阀”和结构性因素,中产阶层是构建社会主义“和谐社会”的稳定器。就亚里士多德的社会稳定观及其对我国现代化进程中保障社会稳定和谐的现实启示意义作一点探讨。

In his masterpiece ＂Politics＂, the ancient Greece＇s ideologist Aristotle put forward that, the underdevelopment of Middle Class is the root cause of political instability and the replace of democratic regime with autarchic regime. Therefore, the development and grandness of Middle Class is the footstone of social stability. Aristotle＇s viewpoint of social stability gives us the following practical revelation： a real modern, stable state＇s social structure must be the ＂olive type＂ which Middle Class is the principal part while the high and the low class account for little proportion. That is to say, the social structure must be that the middle is big while the two ends are small. So we can say that the Middle Class becomes principal part is the ＂safety valve＂ and structural factor of modern social stability. Middle Class is the stable ware of sociality to construct ＂Harmonious society＂. This article makes a little discuss on Aristotle＇s viewpoint of social stability and its practical revelation to the social stability and harmonious during our country＇s modernization course.