Study On Historical Experience Of The New-democratic Cultural Revolution

Theoretically speaking, New-democratic culture is the national, scientific, popular, anti-imperialist and anti-feudalism's cultural theory that was founded by the Party Members in the New-democratic Revolution Stage. In practice, it is mainly the cultural construction of the Revolutionary Bases led by the Communist Party of China, and the leading of the Left-wing Cultural Movement in Kuomintang-ruled Area. The New-democratic Culture, with its double effects of saving the nation from extinction and enlightening, has served the times' subject, and promoted transforming of Chinese society, and represented onward direction of China's advanced culture.The New-democratic Culture has already found the cultural development pattern which accords with China's actual conditions. The basis spirit, values and scientism handling Chinese and Western cultural problems that its content and guiding principle embodied have heredity, as for the culture of the primary stage of socialism. Compared with the New-democratic Revolution Stage, the politics and economy of the Socialism Primary Stage have changed profoundly, and cultural construction faces many new problems, but the scientificalness, nationalness and popularness emphasized by the New-democratic Cultural Construction has not been outdated yet. So the New-democratic Culture is the source of the culture trend and value in the Socialism Primary Stage, and also the foundation and starting point of the Chinese culture modernization.Exactly due to the significance of the New-democratic Culture, it has the same important significance to study the process of New-democratic Cultural Revolution and cultural practice, and sum up the historic experience of the cultural construction.This article adopts historical and logic train of thought, and investigates the process of the New-democratic Cultural Revolution and Cultural Construction, and sums up the historical experience and objective law that Party represents the onward direction of China's advanced culture honestly from beginning to end.This article has 5 parts.The first part is the introduction. It is mainly about the causes of selecting this topic, the current situation of the research, the research train of thought and the research methods.The second part is about the historical necessity from Old-democratic Cultural Revolution to New-democratic Cultural Revolution. It mainly comments on two tiers. (1) After Opium War in 1840, China became a semicolonial and semifeudal society step by step. It is no doubt that burgeoning national bourgeoisie democratic culture represented onward direction of China's advanced culture at that time, but it repeatedly retreated by the attacks of the Imperialist and Feudalist culture bund. So a new democratic culture is indispensable for the times. (2)After the October Revolution, Marxism became a member of China. The rising of the Chinese working class in the May 4th Movement prepared the thought rationale and class organization's condition for the producing of the new democratic cultural concept. Some advanced people who led the modern Chinese revolution accomplished the change from radical democrat to Marxist. It is the result of the Marxism advanced culture in the May 4th period. The founding of the Communist Party of China indicated that intellectuals began to apply advanced culture to Chinese social practice after their world view changed.The third part is about the formation and development of the New-democratic Cultural Revolution Thought. It mainly comments the New-democratic Cultural Revolution Thought has experienced three stages that are germ (1919-1921), taking form (1921-1932), and maturation (1932-1940). It is unified with the stage of the New-democratic Cultural Revolution and has realized the great directionality's historic transition in the Chinese Modern Cultural Transform.The fourth part is about the course and accomplishment of the New-democratic Cultural Revolution. It mainly comments the New-democratic Cultural Construction Thought inherits the Democracy and Science' Connotation of the New Culture Movement. At the same time, it has the historical heredity and has prepared for the building of the cultural system of socialist society in China. The course and accomplishment of the New-democratic Cultural Construction are as follows. Insist on propagating Marxism and popularizing scientific knowledge to the masses of workers and peasants. Insist on the unification of using Marxism to criticize and inherit the nation's traditional culture and mobilizing the masses of workers and peasants. Insist on the unification of improving Party's Marxism-Leninism theoretical level and scientific knowledge level. Insist on the unification of breaking reactionary bund of imperialism and feudalism and spreading Marxism. Insist on the unification of admitting intellectual's historical position and remolding ideology.The fifth part is about historic experience of New-democratic Cultural Revolution. It mainly comments the New-democratic Cultural Revolution insist on scientific character, value connotation and general and specific policy of the New-democratic cultural guiding principle from the beginning to end. It is the profound embodiment of the onward direction of China's advanced culture in the New-democratic Revolution Stage, and has accomplished the historical transition from cultural concept of semicolonial and semifeudal society to cultural concept of New-democracy. At the same time, the New-democratic Cultural Revolution and Cultural Construction have many characters that are emphasizing the ideological form and ideological and political function, laying stress on morality target, and cultivating new comers of communism. Its historical experience is as follows. Marxism determines the character and direction of the cultural revolution and cultural construction. Insist on emancipating the mind and seeking the truth to drive Marxist making theoretical innovation. Insist on making theoretical innovation and advancing with time to realize the need of creating a happy life. Handling rightly the relation of centralized and diversity to satisfy people's gradually growing cultural life needs. Insist on the viewpoint that "Literature and art is served for workers, peasants and soldiers, and is served for the proletariat's politics." The insistence of Party's policy towards intellectuals must take that bring intellectuals' creative ability into play as criterion. The insistence of the principle that making the past serve the present and foreign things serve China must take insisting on the overall development of human being as criterion.