Research On Community Culture Construction And Popularization Of Marxism

Since Marxism entered China, urban communities have been the important grounds to conduct the popularization of Marxism, and the construction of the urban community culture has been the significant field of the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristic, and the important part of the undertakings of socialist culture. As the main channel to realize the popularization of Marxism, the development of community culture not only reflects the great achievements in the revolution, construction, reform and practice of our country, but also contains Chinese’s common historical memories, ideological consensus and value identification.The popularization of Marxism is the popularization in China. Facing the Chinese people with the background of Chinese culture, facing the cultural issues in China, the popularization of Marxism is in fact a process of cultural embedment. On August 19th,2013, at the meeting of propaganda and thought work, China’s president Xi Jinping presented, "We must clear that the socialism with Chinese characteristics is rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese culture; it reflects the wishes of the Chinese people; it always adapts to the development requirement of China and of the times, and it has a deep origin in history and foundation in reality. " Conducting the research of the popularization of Marxism from the perspective of the construction of community culture has such meaning and value as what Xi said.The popularization of Marxism is firstly about practice. At present, among researches on the popularization of Marxism, the researches focused on the practice route are insufficient. This dissertation takes Qionghuaguan Community---the representative community with traditional culture in Yangzhou, a historical city---as research sample. It combines the study on the popularization of Marxism and the study on construction of the urban community culture, and focuses on the historical and present practice of the popularization of Marxism in the urban community through the process of Chinese socialism revolution, construction and reform. With the historical studying perspective, this dissertation comprehensively and systematically investigates and analyses the construction of urban community culture in different time periods in history, sums up its experience and lessons. The dissertation also studies and evaluates the fruits of the population of Marxism in urban community culture construction, investigates the influence of Marxism, as an ideology, on the grassroots community during each periods, compares the results of the construction of community culture in different time periods, and finally seeks the connection between community culture construction and the popularization of Marxism and the internal rules in them.The dissertation adopts methods of literature research, comparative research, historical research and interdisciplinary research, etc.This dissertation has six chapters:The Introduction introduces the reason of choosing this topic, the importance of this research, the overview of the research, the basic concepts, research methods, and the innovation in the dissertation and gives some analysesChapter I discusses the formation of Qionghuaguan Community and the historical heritage and the revolutionary legacy of it. The prosperous history and culture of Qionghuaguan Community and the evolution of thoughts in modern times provided the significant conditions for the early spread of Marxism in Yangzhou and for the emergence of a group of revolutionaries.Chapter II discusses the construction of community culture and the popularization of Marxism in the thirty years from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to the third plenary session of the 11th. During this period, the dominant position of the Marxism in the field of ideology was established and strengthened; around the central task, the construction of community culture was carried out comprehensively. By highly organized "social mobilization", the promotion of the construction of community culture and the popularization of Marxism progressed rapidly and obtained the huge achievement. However, under the influence of "Left" views, the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), the movement to form rural people’s communes (1958-1960) and especially the Culture Revolution (1966-1976) seriously impeded the healthy development of the popularization of Marxism.Chapter Ⅲ:in the 1980s and 1990s, China’s reform and opening-up took up and progressed rapidly. Cities started to value, protect and renew the material culture of communities, and to develop local community economy, effectively improved the livelihood of the people and created important material basis for the popularization of Marxism. The construction of socialist spiritual civilization became the significant approach to promote the construction of community culture and the popularization of Marxism. Communities gave full play to the core roles of cities’ grassroots organizations and grassroots party cadres and made the construction of community culture and the popularization of Marxism enter the benign and healthy development track.Chapter Ⅳ:since the beginning of the new century, the construction of community has been in a full wing. In the city-wide protection of the ancient city, the value of the material historical culture of Qionghuaguan Community showed up. The participation of residents, the construction of mass culture and the activities to make Yangzhou a "civilized city" together formed a joint force to promote the construction of community culture. Also, following the party’s mass line, improving the livelihood of people, enhancing the welfare of the community, strengthening the construction of community party organization, giving full play to the role model of party members, and joining the requirement of advanced culture in the construction of community culture all effectively promoted the popularization of Marxism in the construction of community culture.Chapter V, as the conclusion of the dissertation, specifically analyzes how the popularization of Marxism influences the spiritual culture, institutional culture and material culture, the three level of the community culture, looks to the future and raises that the traditional culture provides nutrition for the popularization of Marxism; contemporary mass culture gives refreshed energy to the popularization of Marxism; the work of people’s livelihood matters the success or failure of the popularization of Marxism; the system construction provides assurance for the popularization of Marxism; the democracy at grassroots level ensures that the popularization of Marxism win support among the people.