Abstract

The right of Mao Zedong thought, he rarely used "human rights" concept, most of the time using the "right people", this detail did not cause enough attention to academics. The author believes that, Mao Zedong's people's rights to develop critical thinking is Western human rights theory a try. Chinese traditional culture, Marxism and the salvation of modern China is facing a critical situation has greatly influenced the thinking of Mao Zedong's right, make him keenly aware of the limitations of Western human rights theory, and thus made ​​a significant heterogeneity in the West, human rights theory of thinking. Western human rights ideas as an alternative solution, to emphasize the rights of the people thought the class attribute, non-elitism, collectivism and rights of the characteristics of authenticity, complete with natural rights in the reflection as the main feature on the basis of a Western human rights the right to build. Led by Mao Zedong's achievements and mistakes right to practice these qualities can be found from its roots. Learn from history, to promote the construction of the current human rights in China during this period no doubt be clear right from the theory and practice begins. In his rights thinking, Mao Tse-tung used the concept of "people's rights" instead of "human rights", such a detail was almost neglected by most of scholars. The author argued that Mao Tse-tung's thought of people's rights was an attempt to develop human rights theories of western tries. Chinese traditional culture, Marxism and the task of saving the nation from extinction greatly influenced Mao's rights thinking, and provided the possibility for him to detect the limitation of western human rights theories and put forward a new kind of rights thinking. As a project in place of western human rights theories, the thought of people rights has a class-analysis, anti-elite, collectivistic, and realistic characteristic. All the achievements and failures of Mao's people's rights practice could be traced back to such characteristics. And to push forward Chinese human rights construction requires a close study of people's rights theory and practice of Mao's period