邓小平的“南方谈话” ,从根本上坚持了马克思主义的精髓和核心 ,是坚持和发展马克思主义的光辉篇章 ,是马克思主义在当代中国新发展的经典文献。“南方谈话”中围绕“什么是社会主义 ,怎样建设社会主义”这一时代性课题所阐述的一系列纲领性的重要思想 ,把科学社会主义理论提升到了一个新的境界 ,为有中国特色社会主义建设奠定了最坚实的理论基础 ,同时也成为确立科学社会主义的当代形态 ,即“当代科学社会主义”的重要标志 Deng Xiaoping’s “southern talk” basically upheld the essence and core of Marxism. It is a glorious chapter in upholding and developing Marxism and is a classic document of the new development of Marxism in contemporary China. A series of important programmatic concepts elaborated in the “conversation on the South” around the theme of “what is socialism and how to build socialism?” Raised the scientific socialism theory to a new realm, The establishment of doctrine has laid the most solid theoretical foundation and has also become an important symbol of establishing the contemporary form of scientific socialism, that is, “contemporary scientific socialism.”