The relationship between scientific socialism and socialism with Chinese characteristics is that the former guides the latter, rather than the opposite. Therefore, we should extract and purify basic principles of scientific socialism on the basis of scientific socialism raised by the founders of Marxism instead of the empirical needs of socialism with Chinese characteristics. There are mainly eight basic principles of scientific socialism: socialism will take the place of capitalism inevitably; basic features at the first stage of communism; the proletariat must organize themselves as a party; violent revolution is the general law of proletarian revolutionj; there is a transition period between capitalism and the first stage of communism; classes struggle and proletarian dictatorship need to be stressed in the transition period; the private ownership must be eliminated; the international proletarian unity must be reinforced.

Editor: zhang Jiangang