中国现代民族国家建构的正当性位移

Legitimacy Displacement of Chinese Modern Nation-State

中国在19世纪末20世纪初,经历了国家形式的创造性转化,在国际秩序中面临着现代民族国家建构的基本任务,这个任务具有超前的优先性,它关涉到中华民族的生死存亡。随着现代国家的形成,关于现代民族国家建设的正当性也经历了创造性的转化,在这一转化过程中,与西方的自由理念相比,平等理念获得了压倒性的优势,它既与传统文化中的平均思想相契合,也有利于有效的政治与社会动员。而上述两种任务都是在社会主义的框架下完成的,社会主义的基本理念成为当代中国意识形态的基本理念。在建设社会主义市场经济过程中,国家建构的正当性既要继承中国传统文化基因,也要符合中国现代化建设的现实。

From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, China experienced creative state formtransformation and was faced with the basic tasks of modern nation-state construction in the internationalorder. This task has the preemptive priority and it is relates to the survival of the Chinese nation. Alongwith the formation of the modern state, the legitimacy of the modern nation-state construction has alsoexperienced creative transformation. In the process of this transformation, compared with the westernconcept of freedom, equality concepts gained an overwhelming advantage because it not only correspondsto the traditional culture of the average thought, but also is advantageous to the effective political andsocial mobilization. Both of these tasks are completed in the framework of socialism and the socialistbasic idea becomes the basic conception of ideology in contemporary China. In the process of constructionof the socialist market economy, the legitimacy of national construction should not only inherit theChinese traditional culture gene, but also accord with the reality of China's modernization.