ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concrete situation in China at present, the concrete content of human rights, which we can also call its extension, is more or less reflected in the China Human Rights Declaration. Human rights include all legitimate rights that a social being ought to have; these rights would include, in addition to the right to subsistence, the rights to work, speech, publication, democracy, and so on. Our way of posing and elaborating on the question may meet with censure from theorists who argue that proceeding from definitions is not the methodology of materialists. The fact that humans could both manufacture and use tools can be taken as a symbol of this. Following on the development of humans themselves, and the material means of production and reproduction they created, human society at the end of its primitive stage produced a new tool, a shackled tool that had the power of speech: the slave.
