Study On The Dialogue Platform For The Popularization Of Marxism In Contemporary China

In the Report of Seventeenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, GeneralSecretary Hu Jintao focused on building the Socialist Core Value System, and consolidating theguiding role of Marxism. As he clearly stated:"To popularize Socialist Theoretical System withChinese Characteristics, and promote the popularization of Marxism in contemporary China."However, along with the Collapse of Soviet Union and Eastern Socialist Countries, the processing ofeconomic globalization as well as the deepening of social transformation, intermingled trends ofsocial thoughts appeared in the ideological domain, causing minority of social members lose theirbelieves, even cater to western hostile forces, oppose the guiding role of Marxism and advocatediverse guiding ideology. All of these to some extent have weakened the appeal and cohesion ofmainstream ideology, and dilute its defense power.In order to adhere to the position of mainstream ideology, integrate the values of socialawareness, and properly guide diverse ideologies, in the specific context of globalization and socialtransformation, comprehensively used multiple research methods, including literature review andquestionnaire, theory study and practice research, historical methods, institutional analysis,comparative study, the paper tried to build a platform from perspective of both theory and practice.And a promoter, the author hoped to achieve dialogues and exchanges among variety of social ofideas through a positive way, accordingly to occupy a dominant position in the ideological field,consolidate the guiding position of Marxism, and, ultimately, realize Marxism popularization. Thepaper is divided into seven sections.The first section is the introduction section, which introduces the background of the research,research status at home and abroad, as well as the basic ideas and methods and so on.The second section analyses fundamental concepts and elements. After reform and opening up,along with the economic reform, social disintegration intensified and new social classes turned up,changing social structure from single to multivariate. The diversified social reality and social classesin contemporary China inevitably inquiry new definition and interpretation to"populace","popularization" as well as "Marxism popularization" and etc, in the aspects of specificmeaning, develop course and characteristics of a new era. Meanwhile, in the era of globalization, thedialogue between multi-ideological discourse and civilizations again become the focus of the globalexchanges relationship. In current social context of values' and interests' diversity, drawing on the dialogue among a variety of civilizations, and building a platform for equal exchange betweenmainstream values and variety of social thoughts in contemporary China are a historical choice.The third section reviews the dialogue platform during the process of Marxism development, andreveals its revelation on modern times. First, the dialogue platform expedited Marxism. The rationalthinking of advanced ideas in the early19th century constitutes a direct theoretical source of Marxistphilosophy. In the pre-Marxist theories, dialogue and the dialogue platform had played a role betweena varieties of ideas. Second, the dialogue platform promoted the development of Marxism. In the endof the19th century and the turn of the20th century, Lenin combined Marxism to the actual and thechanging times of Russia, and led the Russian people's great victory in the October Revolution,promoting the wide dissemination of Marxism all over the world. Although socialism has witnessedmajor setbacks, history has repeatedly proved that Marxism is the scientific truth continuousdeveloped in the twists and turns. Third, the experience of developing in dialogue of Marxism hasmade revelation to modern times. In the process of popularization of Marxism, the theory not onlyshould make it self-consistent and internal harmonious, but also face the challenges from differenttheories. Only "self-command" and "convincing" can make the theory grasp the initiative in theideology field.The fourth section interprets the challenges faced by Marxism as the mainstream ideology. First,the globalization process impact on the mainstream ideology in the traditional dialogue platform. Inthe continued integration into the globalization process, globalization affects people's recognition ofChina's mainstream ideology in its unique way. At the same time, penetration of Western ideology inthe globalization process poses a serious threat to the recognition of mainstream ideology. Second,diverse values of market economy enrich the values of traditional dialogue platform. Economicreform and the establishment of market economy play a positive role in the mainstream ideologydevelopment, but also had a negative impact and brought challenges. Third, the contemporarychanges in social class have changed the composition of traditional dialogue platform. With themarket economy and the industrialization process, both of China's social structure and the pattern ofincome distribution have undergone profound changes. We must face up to the situation of interestdemanding diversity, interest gap expansion as well as interest conflict intensification, and try toexplore a new path to Marxism popularization.The fifth section reflects the possibility and necessity of dialogue platform building both fromlevels of theory and practice. First, it must be translated into "public discourse" for the mainstream ideology to become people's political beliefs and codes of conduct. Therefore, it is the intrinsicproperties demands of Marxism to build a dialogue platform to achieve equal exchanges between avariety of mainstream ideology and discourses. Second, the basic functions of socialist ideology isarm people's minds with socialist world view of characteristic of the times, guide people correctlyview their own interests and unify people's minds on major issues. Thus, the concept of socialistideology requires building a dialogue platform to achieve full dialogue and exchange between themainstream ideology and a variety of social thoughts. Finally, although the current discourse of themainstream ideology faces the threat from different ideologies at home and abroad as well as a varietyof social thoughts, the new trend of international ideological game broadens the breadth, strength andspeed of cultural dialogue, and provides good external conditions for dialogue platform establishment.The sixth section discusses dialogue platform building in the process of Marxism popularizationfrom the theoretical level. From an economic perspective, due to long-term coexistence of a variety ofownership structures, a variety of economic sectors and multiple forms of distribution, a variety ofinterest groups social classes emerge. As a result, mixed ownership system came into being. From apolitical perspective, Chinese Communist Party is on behalf of the fundamental interests of the widestpeople. It demands to strengthen the party's political representation function and increase politicalintegration. From a social perspective, social diversity and invasion of Western culture led to diverselifestyles and values, resulting in core values identity crisis of the masses. From a cultural perspective,representative of the advanced culture's direction demand that the party must fully research the newrules and characteristics of cultural development in current era, build socialist cultural value systemwith Chinese characteristics and strengthen the party's cultural integration under the guidance ofMarxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.The seventh section explores dialogue platform building in the process of Marxismpopularization from a practical level. First, improve the socialist market economy to consolidate thematerial foundation for dialogue platform. As the ruling party, whether Chinese Communist Party canbuild a dialogue platform in contemporary Chinese society, is closely linked with a solid materialbasis. And that also concerns whether the party can promote China's development, and achieve thefundamental interests of the widest people. Second, enhancing advanced status of the ruling party andconstructing service-oriented government to create democratic political environment for dialogueplatform. Stable democratic political environment is favorable of political guarantee value forperfecting dialogue platform and promoting Marxism popularization in contemporary China. Third, strengthen the efforts of all social classes and organizations to involve in the dialogue platform.Contemporarily, Chinese society is in the transition. And discourse power among classes andorganizations suffered serious imbalance. Under the guidance of ideology, of which Socialist CoreValue System is the main content, we should actively construct the socialist civic culture, enhancesense of belonging of all classes' and organizations' values, and accelerate the development of China'ssocialist civil society. Fourth, build an advanced socialist culture to provide intellectual support fordialogue platform. In the tide of globalization, cultural "soft power" plays an important role in theideological field. It is urgently needs to enhance China's cultural "soft power", to maintain culturalsecurity, of which Marxist is the core, and establish a dialogue mechanism.