“平等”观念的缺席,是多年来中国社会生活的一个现实。不仅在我们的权力话语中缺席,而且在日常生活的话语中也是如此,连学术研究中也不多见。近来有些学者开始把“平等”观念纳入研究的视野,发人深省。比如高瑞泉的新著《平等观念史略》就以平等观念的历史考察为主题,细致描述了20世纪上半期平等观念在中国是如何凸显和演进的。许耀桐在论述马克思主义的社会主义的核心价值观的时候,依据马恩的文本把“解放、自由、民主、 The absence of the concept of ”equality“ is a reality of social life in China for many years. Not only absent in our discourse of power, but also in the discourse of everyday life, even in academic studies. Recently, some scholars have begun to put the concept of ”equality“ into the research horizon and thought-provoking. For example, Gao Ruquan’s new ”History of Concepts of Equality" focuses on the historical investigation of the concept of equality and elaborates on how the notion of equality in the first half of the twentieth century has been highlighted and evolved in China. When discussing the core values ​​of Marxism in socialism, Xu Yaotong liberated, freedoms, and democracy according to the text of Marx and Engels,