Abstract: In his framework designing of the radical politics, Giddens reconstructed the traditional social welfare with the modernity theory and structuralism, and put forward the concept“positive social welfare” which goes beyond either“left” or “right”. Ontologically, the“positive social welfare” is the regain of an individual’s subjectivity. It helps the individual become subject and get out of the quagmire. He understood subjectivity from the reflection of self-identification and the duality of structure. The former stresses the individual’s self-awareness under the modernity, while the latter emphases the two-direction
construction of individuals and society. Its connotations include subjects’ reflection, activity, equality, goal and responsibility. This is the affirmation of the subjectivity of“man as man”, which is the true meaning of“positive social welfare”.