Research On Creative Thought Of Mao Zedong

Thinking may be divided into two parts of reproductive thought and creative thought according to originative level of thinking results. Creative thought refers to a thinking activity that various thinking modes and methods, driven by objective need on the basis of newly acquired information and stored knowledge, are generally used to overcome thinking set through matching and composition of various information and knowledge or selection of most optimum solution or systematic integration or by conception to, sixth sense and inspiration to create new methods, new concepts, new images and new ideas for helping knowledge or practice make breakthrough progress. Creative thought is uniquely featured by its originality, sensitivity, activity, multi-directionalism and integrity.Creative thought of Mao Zedong is a collective concept of thinking activity, concept, mode and methods that Mao Zedong gained his new theoretic results when understanding and resolving problems concerning Chinese revolution and development. Naturally this creative thought has further built new thinking modes of Seeking Truth From Facts, Two Leaps, Contradictory Analysis, Mass Line and Independent Thinking suitable for Chinese revolution and development on the basis of breaking through traditional and doctrinal thinking set of Superstition On Supervisors and On Books when working for integrating Marxist Theory into China’s reality. Creative thought has further built new theoretic results in politics, military, economics, culture and philosophy reflecting Chinese revolution and development reality. Such creative thought has demonstrated its unique single feature in extensive range of criticism, originality, dialectics, extensity and predicability.Creative thought of Mao Zedong was originating from special social background in that era of War and Revolution with collective features of in-depth Marxist Theory, rich revolution and development experiences and excellent Chinese thinking traditions. It also maintained a very close relation with personality, idea and sensation of Mao Zedong. Such creative thought was continuously improved from its beginning to steady development, for example, an integrated creative thought was primarily built from creative idea in earlier days to early Anti-Japanese War days. Creative thought of Mao Zedong was steadily improved and developed during Anti-Japanese War and further enriched and extended from Liberation War to completion of 1957 Socialist Transformation and establishment of socialist system. However such creative thought experienced sinuous stages from 1957 to end of Cultural Revolution.Mao Zedong began to produce a series of basis principles for his creative thought during long term days of guiding Chinese Revolution and development as well as theoretic research, exploitation and creation, including:independent thinking, integration of theory and practice, collection of people’s wisdom and adequate exercise of initiative. In fact integration of theory and practice has constituted the most basis principle of creative thought of Mao Zedong.Knowledge structure, an composition mode of various knowledge in our brains, plays an important, basic role in activity of creating thought. Mao Zedong particularly demonstrated his knowledge structure by his individual features:unification of width and the profound, rich Marxist theory knowledge, parallel recognition of book knowledge and practical knowledge. Mao Zedong even advanced and improved his knowledge structure in a dynamic way. For example, optimum and reasonable Wide and Edge knowledge structure built by Mao Zedong during New Democratic Revolution period basically met special requirements on knowledge range by creative thought and in a result such structure promoted development of Mao’s creative thought. However Mao’s knowledge structure had left restrictive and even negative effect on his creative thought due to its limitation.Thinking methods include logical thinking and non-logical thinking. Mao Zedong not only scientifically used various logical thinking methods to find and raise questions as well as discovering essence of things, concept, principle and theory, including integration of analysis and generality, abstraction to specific, unification of logic and history, but also could flexibly use various non-logical thinking methods of imagery thinking, divergent thinking, lateral thinking and converse thinking to guide planning, proposal and strategy of specific practice. Furthermore Mao Zedong also succeeded to organically integrate logical thinking and non-logical thinking to generally accomplish creation of theory and practice. Reality value of Mao’s creative thought may be demonstrated in various aspects, for example, it has significantly contributed to promotion of creation of China-style Marxist theory, including:confirmed root principle of China-style Marxist theoretic creation, provided basic thinking modes and methods for China-style Marxist theoretic creation and demonstrated development way of China-style Marxist theoretic creation. In addition such creative thought also makes an active role of enlightening national creative thinking ability:updating of ideas is the precondition of raising national creative thinking ability, building creative thinking mode is key of raising national creative thinking ability, setting creative personality is the power of raising national creative thinking ability and creating favorable environment for creation is the condition of raising national creative thinking ability.