论平等观念的历史性

On the Historicity of Equality Concept

在马克思历史观和平等观的视野中,平等观念是一定历史阶段上生产方式与交换方式变更的产物。平等观念的内容不是固定不变的,不同的历史阶段有各自占统治地位的平等观念。当一个社会的生产方式与交换方式的性质是自然经济和资本主义商品经济时,占统治地位的平等观念是等级制"平等"和虚假权利平等。社会主义阶段,真实权利平等成为占统治地位的平等观念,权利平等经历了由虚假权利平等到真实权利平等的转变。到了共产主义高级阶段,事实平等观念就会取而代之,那时平等观念也会彻底消亡。一种平等观念能够占统治地位,根本原因在于其具有历史的必然性和合理性。

From the perspective of Marx’s view of history and equality,the concept of equality is the product of the change of the mode of production and exchange in a certain historical stage.The content of equality concept is not changeless;different historical stages have their own dominant equality concept.When the nature of the mode of production and exchange in a society is natural economy and capitalist commodity economy,the equality concept that dominates in the society is hierarchy "equality" and sham equality of rights.In the socialist stage,the true equality of rights became the dominant equality concept,and the equality of rights has experienced the transformation from sham right equality true equality of rights.In the advanced stage of communism,the concept of factual equality will take the place of the former dominant equality concept,and then equality concept will completely disappear.The fundamental reason why an equality concept can become a dominant equality concept lies in its historical inevitability and rationality.