Li Dazhao And The Sinicization Of Materialist Historical Views

At the beginning of the 20 th century,historical materialism came on stage in China.Li Dazhao,Chen Duxiu,Li Da,MAO Zedong and other early intellectuals were the first to accept historical materialism and spread it widely.Under the guidance of historical materialism,they carried out revolutionary movements in combination with China’s reality and explored ways to solve China’s problems.At the same time,the traditional view of history was gradually abandoned,and historical materialism gradually became an important trend of thought in China,thus starting the historical process of Chinese historical materialism.In the process of sinicization of historical materialism,Li Dazhao played an important role.At the beginning of the 20 th century,when China was poor and weak and vulnerable,various national salvation movements were in full steam.Although various national salvation propositions and measures played a certain role in a certain period and a certain aspect,they eventually failed successively.At the moment of national crisis,Li Dazhao,who was determined to rebuild China,focused on Marxism and first came into contact with marxist historical materialism.He actively propagated this new view of history among young students and workers,urging them to take it as a guide to re-analyze Chinese history and society,explore the root causes of China’s problems,and seek a development path suited to China’s national conditions.In this process,Li Dazhao began to pay attention to the classical content of historical materialism.First,he thought that in Marxist historical materialism,economic relations were the center,but economy was not the only factor.In addition to economic factors,other material elements also have a certain effect on social development.Secondly,Li Dazhao believed that times are created by laborers and laborers are sacred.Third,after analyzing the current situation of the society,Li Dazhao pointed out that the history of mankind runs through class struggle,so the fundamental solution of social problems can only be completed by class struggle.At the same time,Li Dazhao also combined with China’s actual use of historical materialism,interpretation of Chinese history,analysis of cultural differences between China and the West,the study of modern Chinese ideological change and explore the solution to the Chinese problem of the road,shoulder the historical materialism and China’s actual combination of the banner.Therefore,Li Dazhao’s sinicization of historical materialism has profound significance.First of all,it pioneered the theoretical research of Historical materialism in China.Secondly,it provides theoretical support for the establishment of the Communist Party of China.Third,it provided guidance for the early revolutionary activities of the Communist Party of China.Fourthly,it has accumulated experience for the Sinicization of Marxism.