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If it is said that in the theory of politics and religion, Zhu Xi being the academic representative of Confucianism doctrines, Thomas of Christian doctrines, Athari of Islam doctrines and Maimonides of Jewish doctrines, the author of this book is the academic representative of ancient Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Locke, Rousseau, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Human Rights, Marx, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong... and the book is the collection of the ideological data in the past 2,500 years. This book is by no means a theoretical accumulation of various theories and a list of viewpoints. It is a macroscopic study of the developmental rhythm of the world unity and the historical flow of human civilization. It explores the commonality and specialty of the rationalities of human beings in different historical periods and different nationalities and, reveals the synchronicity and regularity of their internal connections and interactions in the milestones of human history. This book uses the Marxism dialectical materialism to sort out the world history of 2500 years. It clarifies that the history of human civilization has been broken down into two eras of public ownership and private ownership. Slavery is a quantitative change in the primitive public ownership form that erodes public ownership and transforms into private ownership. During the 500 years BC, it was the qualitative change of private ownership completely replacing public ownership. During this period, Lao Tseu, Confucius, Sakyamuni, and Socrates, Plato, and the Jewish prophets faced up to the overall victory of private ownership. They standardized, restricted and guided its healthy development and, changed the public concepts to form the axis of human civilization. Capitalism is the transition from private ownership to public ownership, and is the quantitative change under the socialized capital, labor, information, welfare, etc. in pr