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How to understand what Engels put forward: Nature is a natural historical process?
Marxist social harmony is the harmony between man and nature.

Because there is a transformation relationship of matter, energy and information between man and nature, nature plays a decisive role in the emergence of man and human society. Therefore, the relationship between man and nature has become an important basis for building social harmony.

1, the relationship between man and nature is unity of opposites.

Nature and man are two different series of existence forms. Nature is a comfortable existence form, while man is a conscious existence form. But there is a close relationship between them. Marxism holds that the relationship between man and nature is interdependent and mutually restrictive, and it is an objective relationship linked by practice. On the one hand, people depend on nature and obtain necessary materials and energy from nature through labor to maintain their own survival and development. On the other hand, people react to nature, that is, change nature through labor and create new living space and conditions for themselves. Engels believes that it is a one-sided naturalistic view of history to only recognize the role of nature on human beings, but not to recognize or ignore the role of man and nature. Of course, people's survival in nature is bound to be restricted by nature, and people's initiative and passivity are the unity of opposites. If people do whatever they want in front of nature, they will be punished by nature. Therefore, people's initiative can't go against the laws of nature, otherwise it will be retaliated by nature. However, the long-term practice of human beings proves that the breadth and depth of human understanding and transformation of nature will expand and improve with the development of science, and the coordination between man and nature will become stronger and stronger. All this proves that people will be more and more free in nature and become the leader of nature.

2. The harmonious relationship between man and nature is the foundation and the highest realm of social harmony.

Nature is the refuge of human beings and the foundation of human survival and development. Without nature, people cannot exist. However, man is also a part of nature, the product of its long-term development and the highest product. Therefore, with the emergence of human beings, pure nature has become the world of human beings, and nature has therefore become the object of human development and utilization. The close relationship between them makes people realize that there is a harmonious relationship between man and nature, which is the basis and the highest realm of social harmony.

Establishing a holistic view of nature and establishing a partnership between man and nature are the prerequisites for the coordinated development of man and nature, and we must have sufficient understanding of the ecological environment. As an important part of the world, man is in a system with nature, and we can't destroy the order of this system. At the same time, we must rely on scientific and technological means to realize the coordinated development between man and nature. Highly developed science and technology and productive forces are the material premise for the coordinated development between man and nature. As a product of nature, human beings are also the regulators of nature, and this regulatory ability is improved with the development of science and technology. In addition, we must solve the problems of human society, adjust social relations and establish a reasonable social system. Without a reasonable social system, there can be no harmonious and orderly utilization and development of nature, and it is impossible to really coordinate the relationship between nature and human society.

3. People's quality plays an important role in building social harmony.

Humans, who have evolved from nature, are also constantly evolving and developing. With the continuous evolution and development of human beings, social civilization is also moving forward. The evolution and development of human beings are mainly manifested in the improvement of human quality. Historically, human society from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age was gradually realized by accumulating experience and mastering manufacturing skills in the process of making stone tools. Being able to make production tools indicates that human beings have a new quality. In the long years, human ancestors mainly concentrated on gathering, fishing and hunting, and in the long-term process of gathering, fishing and hunting, human beings gradually learned aquaculture and planting, so they changed from a predatory economy to a productive economy. It is by the improvement of people's quality that the transformation from fishing and hunting society to animal husbandry society and farming society has been realized. In thousands of years of agricultural society, human beings not only have more and more skills in inventing and using production tools, but also have created splendid ancient ideology and culture, and their quality has also improved to a new level. Since modern times, human beings have got rid of the shackles of obscurantism, their thoughts have been liberated as never before, the light of wisdom has illuminated the way forward, science and technology and industry have developed rapidly, material wealth has increased dramatically, and a highly developed industrial civilization has been created. Historical footprints show that social civilization is always an objective measure to measure the degree of social civilization by the quality of people, and people's quality plays an important role in building social harmony.

People's quality is the main factor to promote the development of social civilization. The development of contemporary social civilization is inseparable from people's quality. This is because a series of high-tech developments since the middle of the 20th century have profoundly changed the pace and appearance of people's material production, spiritual production and daily life. The world has never been so fast-changing and full of vitality as it is today. The development of modern science and technology has brought about new changes in people's ideas and human civilization, and put forward new and higher requirements for people's quality. If the 20th century still belongs to the era of "wealth comes from resources", then 2 1 century will completely enter a new era of "wealth comes from human resources". At present, worldwide economic competition and comprehensive national strength competition are essentially the competition between talents and national quality. Therefore, people's quality has always been an important aspect of contemporary social civilization and a major factor in building a modern harmonious society.

The improvement of national quality is a necessary condition to speed up the process of social civilization in China. China is a developing socialist country, which is currently in the stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way and building a harmonious socialist society. With the construction and development of a harmonious socialist society, people began to pursue the improvement of the quality of social life. This is the symbol of modern social civilization. To achieve this goal, on the one hand, we need high-quality people to create high-quality social life and produce high-quality material and spiritual and cultural products; On the other hand, it needs high-quality people to consume. But in real life, there are some problems in these two aspects, which affect the improvement of people's social life quality and the development of spiritual culture. Therefore, in order to improve people's social life quality and accelerate the process of building a harmonious socialist society in China, we must improve people's quality. In addition, China is a populous country in the world, and the population problem is a big problem that restricts China's socialist modernization. The large population is an established objective fact. The key is how to solve this problem. If it is solved, the huge population will become rich human resources and talent resources, population resistance will become population power, and population burden will become population wealth, thus becoming an important force to promote modern social civilization in China. The key to solving the population problem is to develop human resources and transform them into human resources. In a word, we should step into the ranks of advanced countries in the world in a relatively short time, so as to promote the process of social civilization and build a harmonious socialist society, which fundamentally depends on the improvement of people's quality.