From Revolution To Governance

Ideological transformation is a comprehensive issue. Unfortunately all the researches at home and aboard are focused on the holistic problems, in spite of the lack of detail and structural study. In order to effectively study the dynamics, path, and laws of transformation ideology as well as the changes in the ideological structure elements, from a methodological perspective of historical materialism, and referring to structural functionalism, this dissertation takes advantage of the academic background of history and political sociology, delves into the ideology transformation comprehensively.The chapters of which this dissertation consists are organized as follows:Construction of the first chapter establishes the theoretical framework, particularly the transformation modes of elucidating historical facts. By virtue of the construction of the transformation, this dissertation investigates structurally the ideological transformation.The contents from ChapterⅡto ChapterⅣconstruct the main part of this study. ChapterⅡare supposed to analyze the changes of ideology in rural areas as the presence of ideological transformation. And then, the author regards several kernel concepts (such as "the people’s communes" and "revisionism" and "ownership" and "the class struggle") as the constructs which as theoretical apparatus are helpful for the study of the transformation from revolutionary ideology to governance one(from the third chapter to chapterⅵ). It is obvious that the elucidation in this dissertation is unfolding from the structural elements in the change of ideology.On the basis of the transformation model, ChapterⅦattempts to forecast developing tendency of ideology in the future. The research in this chapter concerns several relation categories which must be properly handled.By means of this research, the dissertation delineates the ideological changes since the foundation of New China, investigates the flux of important constructs across-the-board with structural elements of ideology as investigative objects, and forecasts the tendency of ideological transformation in the future. The main point is as follows:Ⅰ. To suggest the line map of the Ideological transformation of contemporary China. This dissertation considers the ideological transformation in China as a process of radicalization which follows an approach of soft landing, from "Methodological dimension" to the "the level of policy", from the "economic outlook" to "political outlook", and from "peripheral" to the "core", different from the "hard landing" of the former Soviet Union and Eastern regions. The devastating consequence to which the hard landing of the latter leads is well-known, while the former transformation also faces the troubles such as "ideology suspended", "ideological block ", "ideology locked" and other negative issues, which give excuse to the restoration of ultra-Left trend of thought. Therefore, we should properly handle a series of relation categories in the process of the ideological transformation (see ChapterⅥ).Ⅱ. The crux in the ideological transformation lies in the rediscovery of community, especially in order to the re-integrate of ideology after its separation, we should properly handle the relation between the ideology of mainstream and the social one. In the conclusion of this dissertation, the author analyzes the ideological environment of contemporary China, particularly the entangled ideological interactions of three main subjects, i.e. "nation, political parties, and society", and points out that (1) the nature of the ideological transformation is to return to Marxism entirely(dialectical materialism and historical materialism); (2) the rational return of these three ideologies in new historical stage, that is, the ideology of dominant society leads the ideology of political parties and that of the national ideology to return to the right one which relax the national ideology of the society and to the strategies of generalization.Ⅲ. Ideology is a construction process of subjective expression. Thus, because the subjective intention in the construction does not necessarily accord with the situation in reality, the connection lies between the objective structure and that in expression, although it is weak. Concepts (the expression of structure) and socio-economic structure (objective structure) are closely related. According to the development and flux of the objective structure is the change of expression. Unfortunately, because of the profit restrain of the expression subjects, the structure of expression is sometimes in a state of lag. In the ideological transformation, it is called the "suspension" and "block" of ideology.