The Enlightenment of Marx's Citizen Society Theory on China's Social Governance
The modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity is an important path to Chinese-style modernization.Marx's citizen society theory takes a materialist perspective and dialectically analy-zes the relationship between citizen society and political state.It points out that the essence of citizen society orig-inates from the capitalist production relations,with social organizations as its fundamental components,and views the law as the institutional guarantee of citizen society.It uses the"association of free men"beyond citizen socie-ty to indicate the future communist vision.The essence and value principles of social development and construc-tion ideas contained in Marx's citizen society theory have significant guiding significance for strengthening and in-novating social governance and promoting the modernization of national governance system and governance capac-ity in the new era.