ABSTRACT
Lan Ying argues that the proletariat can also make use of the language of human rights, claiming that it is possible to formulate a Marxist conception of human rights. Lan Ying and other more liberal establishment intellectuals did not dispute those human rights problems had continued to exist in China after 1949. Xiao Weiyun's article contains some one-sided and simplistic views of how to treat the human rights slogan, and especially how to analyze and deal with the human rights question in a socialist society. After Xiao's article has investigated the historical background and class nature of the birth of the human rights slogan, he arrives at the following conclusion: The human rights slogan is always a bourgeois slogan. The fundamental thinking that is prominently expounded in the article is: the human rights slogan and questions is always the product of bourgeois thinking, which is not in accordance with the interest of the proletariat and stands in opposition to socialism.
