Reflection upon Great Changes of Socialist Essence Understanding

Since the reconsideration of socialist essence became the main trend of socialist thoughts in the world, the left-wing parties and scholars in many countries have changed their understanding of socialist essence, namely from the traditional system characters to value and goal ones. The main causes are the facts that the system character of the socialist essence can not be used as a yardstick to distinguish socialism from capitalism, which has already resulted in serious problems in socialist practice, and that the value goal of the socialist essence is more scientific. This transformation will exert significant impact on socialist movement, theory and practice. Therefore it's more meaningful for us to understand better the theoretic and practical significance of Deng Xiao-pings theory about the essence of socialism in the main trend of world socialist thoughts.