邓小平社会主义民本观的核心探索

视人民利益高于一切,完全彻底地为人民服务是邓小平社会主义民本观的基本出发点和最终归宿。邓小平社会主义民本观强调人民的利益高于一切,一切事业都是为人民谋利益的。邓小平社会主义民本观中没有民主就没有社会主义,就没有社会主义现代化的著名论断集中体现了邓小平关于人民民主的重要思想,也是其民本观的根本实现途径。

邓小平社会主义民本观形成的历史条件及基础

邓小平社会主义民本观是一种崭新的"以民为本"的思想理念,其指导思想是马克思主义唯物史观。在其形成过程中不但继承了中国传统民本思想的精华,而且还最大程度上汲取了西方人本思想的合理因素。邓小平社会主义民本观不但是中国社会革命及国际马克思主义的历史产物,而且也是时代建设实践的产物。

民生的社会主义刍议——对“什么是社会主义”的再认识

以民生为视角,我们要建设的社会主义,应该是一种民生的社会主义。民生的社会主义,就是把保障民生、改善民生和发展民生纳入中国社会主义现代化建设的日常议程,使之成为中国特色社会主义的理论特色和实践特色。以民生为研究范式,民生的社会主义深化了我们对"什么是社会主义"的认识。民生的社会主义是对科学社会主义的再坚持,是对中国特色社会主义的再拓展,是对社会主义本质的再深化。

社会主义核心价值体系的传统文化特点

社会主义核心价值体系具有鲜明的民族特色和传统文化色彩:马克思主义指导思想非常契合中国传统文化的实事求是精神,中国特色社会主义共同理想继承并超越了传统的"民本"思想,民族精神和时代精神坚持并发展了爱国主义传统,社会主义荣辱观饱含着传统的优秀人格品质。

深刻认识构建社会主义和谐社会的重大意义 扎扎实实做好工作 大力促进社会和谐团结——在省部级主要领导干部提高构建社会主义和谐社会能力专题研讨班开班式上的讲话(摘要)

构建社会主义和谐社会,是我们党从全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发提出的一项重大任务,适应了我国改革发展进入关键时期的客观要求,体现了广大人民群众的根本利益和共同愿望。要在推进社会主义物质文明、政治文明、精神文明发展的历史进程中,扎扎实实做好构建社会主义和谐社会的各项工作。实现社会和谐,建设美好社会,始终是人类孜孜以求的一个社会理想,也是包括中国共产党在内的马克思主义政党不懈追求的一个社会理想。

Trial by Fire： The Eastern Ordination of Stephen Dedalus

Section five of James Joyce＇s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is designed, among other things, to dramatize a young poet＇s ascension to the rank of ＂priest of art,＂ Where Stephen had previously contemplated being a Catholic priest, he now decides to embrace the world girdling Catholicity of global culture and its full range of spiritual traditions. To show how Stephen becomes a priest of art, Joyce has Stephen face three challengers in the form of MacCann, Davin, and Cranly, who all upbraid Dedalus to abandon his apostasy and conform. These three all try to tempt Dedalus away from his devotion to his individuality and personal integrity, and are analogues to the temptations faced by the Buddha on the eve of his enlightenment under the Bo tree. The Buddha faced Kama, the God of Desire; Mara, the Lord of death; and Dharma, who represents Duty. Stephen faces the temptations of social activism （and its attendant ego inflation） in the form of MacCann, a self-destructive Irish Nationalism in the figure of Davin and finally his obligation to his parochial and demanding family as represented by Cranly＇s arguments. Cranly （Dharma） even enjoins Stephen explicitly to make his Easter duty. These are dangerous distractions which can all keep Stephen from his goal, which is the Nibbana of artistic achievement. When Stephen triumphs over these three tempters he has come through the fire of self-doubt and is ready for his larger fate as an artist.

Shepherding Public Discourse Practices： Homiletic Form Aligned to the Logic Operative in Racial Rhetoric and Public Theological Discourse for Secular Liberal Democracies

Given that preaching is the primary mode of public theological discourse for most Christian ministers, an intellectual virtue of verbal restraint is required when practicing public theology and it is wise to address the ways that homilies can shepherd public discourse practices. A theology of rhetoric includes the homilist＇s moral purpose. Homilies either enhance public discourse or pervert it. This essay sketches a pattern of sermon movement that respects the logic operative in public theology, given the social context of America. Homilies can help cultivate the pastoral care of public rhetoric by modeling discourse that nurtures the politics of accountability. While many call for a public ethos where divergent moral voices engage each other in highly contested arenas, a precondition to practicing effective public theology requires that one exercises discourse in a way that respects the social limits on the free exercise of religion. It is important that a public theology of rhetoric clarifies the original social agreement for acceptable religious discourse in the public arena. Homiletics, as a dimension of practical theology, can teach preachers methods of pastoral care for public discourse. The social agreement in liberal democracies to contain the combative nature of religious discourse assumes a logic that is circumscribed by commitments to （1） religious pluralism, （2） theological agnosticism, and （3） epistemological pragmatism. Here we propose that a sermon＇s form, which implicitly touches upon these commitments, can tap into the basic modes of persuasion in secular liberal societies. This respects the moral purposes previously agreed upon and expected of partisans during highly contestable times. This calls for incarnational humility on the part of the Christian public theologian and it guides her/his practice.

Youth in Mainstream Arab Media： A Hybrid, Thus Consensual, Television Construct

Entertainment shows in the Arab world stand for something larger than pointless amusements shaped by producers to follow a set of marketing rules. They may be, at times, trivial or foolish but they always address the uncertainties of collective and individual identities in a region boiling with struggles over meanings and knowledge. Because of the liberalization of the Arab television industries, they have successfully integrated the global market and are now elaborating new conventions inspired by both oriental and western references. In this paper, it will explore the depiction of Arab youth as a social construct meant to challenge the nationalistic representation of this ambiguous social category while, at the same time, promoting the regional debate over modernity, Arabism, and change.

Understanding the Interrelationship Between Global Terrorist Attacks and the Citizen＇s Wellbeing.＂ The Complexity of Terrorism

Terrorism is a global phenomenon that over the last 44 years more than 140,000 terrorist events have been carried out. In the period from 1970-2001, the five countries with the largest number of terrorist attacks were Colombia, Peru, El Salvador, United Kingdom, and India. On the other hand, in the post-2001 context, the five countries with the largest number of terrorist attacks were Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Thailand. One method for measuring in an aggregate way, how many people have suffered under terrorist attacks at national level is to analyze the correlation between some national wellbeing indicators and the number of terrorist attacks. The aim of this study is to analyze empirically the correlation between the global terrorist attacks and the countries wellbeing indicators. Five indicators show a strong relationship with the number of terrorist attacks in the case of the four most attacked countries in the post-2001 context. The authors consider that their findings can support the design of new strategies for preventing terrorist activities taking into account certain socio-economic and political drivers. The authors conclude that as such drivers are socio-complex, so it is necessary to adopt the complex adaptive system （CAS） approach to provide a new way of thinking about terrorism.

Brief discussion on the financial cost management in China＇s private enterprises

With the current development and progress of the socialist marketing economy, the number of the private enterprises in our country increases constantly, and the development scale has been expanded constantly, which has become an important component for China＇s national economy, and making a huge contribution to promote the increase of China＇s national economy. In order to occupy a development location among the fierce market competition and expand the market share, the private enterprises in our country make many efforts constantly, such as strengthening and promotion of the internal management concept and the management mode, etc., which really obtains an obvious achievement and progress, however, due to the restriction of the various reasons, there are still many realistic problems existing in the financial cost management for the private enterprises, which restricts the sustainable, modern and scientific development step greatly, for the method on improving the financial cost management level in China＇s private enterprises and the guarantee of the pertinence and the efficiency for the financial cost management measures to be implemented in the private enterprises, it becomes the key problems which needs to be solved by the private enterprises currently.

Postcolonialism and Socio-political Development in Africa： Learning Through the Literary Eyes of Ngugi Wa Thiong＇O

This study presents the fact that the relationship between the white colonialists and the black indigenous population threw up a myriad of socio-political cross fertilization in Africa. The way and manner the Whites related with the Black people, the levels of reactions and response of the black population to the invading socio-political values and standards during the colonial era has been the subject of interesting writings in Africa. Of significance in this class of writing in Kenya is Ngugi Wa Thiong＇O＇s works. His profound sympathy with his people in their weaknesses, their poverty in the socio-political development in Kenya, and particularly his hatred of exploitation, cruelty, and injustice are noteworthy. It is the thrust of this work to critically look at the socio-political change in postcolonial Kenya through the literary eyes of Ngugi in his remarkable and compelling work, Petals of Blood （1977）, with a view to establish the contributions of the work to real socio-political development in Kenya through the approaches of textual criticism, interpretation, and post-colonial theory. Thus, the study examines the socio-political development in postcolonial Kenyan society, the lifestyle of people, and the relationships that exist among Kenyan citizens, especially between the rich and the poor, the government （ruling class）, and the governed （masses）. It also establishes the basis for the continued prevalence of the themes of violence, corruption, injustice, disillusionment, decadence, and disintegration in contemporary Kenyan literature, in spite of the transformation and change in the socio-political setting of the State.

African Land： From Need to Greed

The land issue remains a colonial legacy which Africa must resolve to facilitate the region＇s Before colonialism land was considered by communities as economic rather than a socio-economic advancements political resource. Agricultural communities vacated land no longer fertile or useful for pasture. Conflicts over parcels of land were therefore rare and if they did occur often resulted in migration. Scramble over parcels of land was thus for need. However, with European scramble and arbitrary partition of Africa in the nineteenth century, formal boundaries were established by colonialists between colonies, a policy later pursued by colonial administrators between communities within colonies. Colonial policies and decolonization process in some colonies complicated the land problem, resulting in the scramble over land for greed by the newly independent states and communities. Land scrambled for greed engendered generalized conflicts. This paper thus intends to argue that the scramble over land for greed made land more a factor of contention than peace in Africa. A chronological-illustrative method, with references from the different geographical divide in Africa was adopted to explore the changing land usage and faces of land conflicts in Africa with the finality that land question in the region is largely a colonial problem.

Migration Images in Turkish Art

In Turkey, from the second half of the nineteenth century, the shaping of an art of painting on the basis of Western understanding was realized with state support. From this period, certain art movements were seen as the means of modernization and Westernization. Therefore, impressionism, cubism, realism, and classicism were supported by the state as a formal artistic understanding. This attitude continued until the 1940s and artists painted certain subject matters on the basis of these art movements. The main theme and subject matters were the presentations of an idealized society such as palace＇s life, attractive women in Western appearance, happy peasants, war heroes, and beautiful views from the country. In the early 1940s, significant breakup began to take place in point of the theme and the subject matter of art. Social realism began to take shape for the first time in art in Turkey. The artists of Yeniler Grubu （Newcomers Group） focused on social phenomena related disadvantaged social groups rather than an idealized society. Some artists among the 1950 generation, especially Nedim Gunsur, Nuri iyem, and Miimtaz Yener, focused on migration and social problems that occurred correspondingly in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper aims to investigate how these artists depicted and interpreted the migration and its consequences.

The value selection in the socialist public cultural services system innovation of colleges

The development of a national culture represents the quality of the citizens of this country, the cultural connotation of a national spirit. With the development of society, citizens demand more exuberant cultural services. Therefore, strengthening the construction of public cultural service system is imperative, at the same time, the public cultural system construction is the development and prosperity of socialist advanced culture, and building a harmonious society, the government system of public cultural services for the public and cultural life, which also constitutes a multifaceted innovative public cultural service system Building model in the public service, is the focus of the new era of cultural undertakings .

The Two Centennial Goals

At its 18th National Congress the Communist Party of China presented a roadmap and issued the call to achieve the Two Centennial Goals: successful completion of the process of building a moderately well-off soeiety; and aeeelerated socialist modernization. Specifically, this means doubling China's aolo GDP and per eapita ineome of both urban and rural residents by 2021, when the CPC celebrates its centenary.

Sublimated Colonialism： The Persistence of Actually Existing Settler-Colonialism

In my paper, “Sublimated Colonialism： The Persistence of Actually Existing Settler-Colonialism,” I interrogate the remaining settler-colonialisms that refused to disappear during the epoch of decolonization. I am most concerned with those settler-colonialisms that persist at the centers of world capitalism, and examine bow this social context often produces an ideology that relegates the concrete reality of settler-colonialism to the past, pushing its existence under supposedly “modem” social relations. Since Frantz Fanon＇s analysis of settler-colonialism, and the class contradiction between colonizer and colonized, was developed in an era where settler-colonialism was partially defined by the relationship between motherland and colony, some often imagine that the era of settler-colonialism is over. Clearly settler-colonialism did not vanish along with this distinction; internal colonies are retained in North America, for example, and the state of Israel is perhaps the most recent historical of this type of colonialism since it was settled and established in the 20th century. Moreover, there is often talk of a “world-wide indigenous movement” which claims to represent a global anti-colonialist front. The point of my paper, therefore, is to examine how settler-colonialism functions and persists when the settler-colony has become synonymous with the motherland. In this social context, colonizers often imagine themselves as the native inhabitants, while those who remain colonized are pushed even further out of history than they were during the previous era of settler-colonialism.

Political development under socialism with Chinese characteristics

Political development under socialism with Chinese character- istics has evolved over time as the Chinese people made sustained efforts to build a better society under the leadership of the CPC by integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific conditions. The key features of such a process comprise leader- ship by the CPC, ownership by the people, and the rule of law. It is informed by continued efforts to improve the system of people's congresses, multiparty eooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC, regional ethnic autonomy and community-level self-governance. Its objective is to continuously improve and develop the socialist political system.

中国改革开放三十年民主选举的发展

引言经过30年的改革开放,中国不但取得了高速的经济增长,在政治领域也发生了显著的变化,一个重要的方面即是中国选举民主不断拓展和深化。首先是在中国广大的农村,农民开始自主选择当家人。

人民民主铸就国家治理之魂——读江必新同志“国家治理现代化与民主化”有感省人大常委会

江必新同志通才硕学,来"人大讲堂"授课,恰逢我随江西党政代表团赴湘学习考察,未能亲耳聆听,引为憾事。回头拜读讲稿,深感其对国家治理现代化与民主化认识之深刻和独到,于字里行间一览无遗,使人们得以从国家治理这一全新视角窥探民主之真谛,不由让人心生钦佩,慨叹"盛名之下无虚士"!党的十八届三中全会提出,"全面深化改革的总目标是完善和发展中国特色社会主义制度,推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化"。一向作为学术概念的"治理"

不断开创农村基层民主政治建设新局面

一、改革开放三十年来我国农村基层民主政治实践过程改革开放三十年来,随着中国特色社会主义事业的不断推进,我们党对农村基层民主政治建设的认识逐步形成科学体系。这主要体现在三个方面。