Chen Zhiyuan And Marxist Philosophy

The introduction and dissemination of Marxist philosophy in China is the greatesthistorical events and the existence of reality in the Chinese thought of the20th century.The development and evolution of Marxist philosophy in China is follow two paths toachieve, first, theoretical studies, and the second is the political practice. Ever theChinese thought is pay more attention on the intrinsic link between the politicalpractice with the Marxism philosophical history, and the scientific principles ofphilosophical workers tend to be obscured under the grand historical narrative andideological discourse. Shen Zhiyuan, the early introducer and disseminator of Marxistphilosophy, economists, social activists, is assiduously and effectively publicize andinterpreta the Marxism in the20th century, his work greatly influenced Marxismdoctrine system Construction and localization process in China.Based on the Life of Shen Zhiyuan’s history trace, This paper launched a combingand more detailed investigation on the Shen Zhiyuan’s process of propagation theMarxist philosophy. And the paper use the text as the object and the history as thesituation, through interpretating and analyzing in-depth the Shen Zhiyuan’ s texttranslations in various research areas, in order to break the current situation of simplepresentation on the Shen Zhiyuan’s philosophical thought by the current academicresearch, and to fairly Comment its important contribution on the propagation historyof the Marxist philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century.Throughout the paper, including three parts, the introduction, six body chapters,the conclusion, and the introduction majorly positive answer the problem of "Whystudy philosophical thought of Shen Zhiyuan".ChapterⅠ: Shen Zhiyuan’s academic thought process. Regarding the realisticcontext of the philosophy of Marxism spread in the20th century as a backdrop, anduse the changes in thinking of Shen Zhiyuan as the logic node, the paper launched adiachronic investigation on the Shen Zhiyuan’s process of propagation the Marxistphilosophy, concisely discussed its representative bookmakings in different periods ofhis life, and summaried of the academic contributions in his life.Chapter Ⅱ: The dissemination of dialectical materialism Using the ShenZhiyuan join in the popularization of the philosophy of Marxism as the historicalcontext, the paper in-depth and detailed analysis that Shen Zhiyuan introduced andexplained the Soviet Marxist Philosophy and defensed the Marxism in the new philosophical debate, then analysis Shen Zhiyuan popularized spread the DialecticalMaterialism and the Materialist Dialectics in the1930s. Finally, trying to objectivelyevaluate his historical contributions.Chapter III: The dissemination of historical materialism From the perspective ofthe timing and thought evolution, after1937, the Shen Zhiyuan’s research and spreadabout the philosophical theory gradually experienced a shift from popularization toactualization. During this period, in order to meet the practical requirements of theChinese revolution, Shen Zhiyuan focus on expatiating the basic principles ofhistorical materialism. His contribution in this area, the most important is from acombination of theoretical and ideological evaluation, systematiclly expounded theMarxism theory about the social structure and social development momentum, anduse these basic principles specifically examines the superstructure various formssuch as national, class, ideology, etc.ChapterⅥ: The study on the chinese social problems and the outlook of lifeShen Zhiyuan attached great importance to the study of basic philosophicaltheories, but he did not stop there.He put the understanding of philosophy theory intothe study on the problem of social reality, materialistic and dialectical interpretatethe the situation of Chinese society. This chapter attempts to dig Shen Zhiyuan’ssocial philosophy thought which reflected in his bookmakings of "SocialPproblems" and "the New Speech on Life Outlook ", in order to grasp ShenZhiyuan’s thought.ChapterV: The progagation and exploration of Marxist Economics In thischapter, using the economic thought as the main line, which reflected in ShenZhiyuan’s in economics bookmakings of "the Plan Economic Outline " and "the NewEconomics Outline ", the paper focuses on the analysis about the Shen Zhiyuan’sthought on the Soviet socialist planned economy and capitalist commodityeconomics. As the same time, this paper expatiate the Shen Zhiyuan’s thoughts onthe problem of China’s economic recovery and reconstruction, the newdemocratic economic construction, and fully affirmed its unique contribution in thefield of economics.Chapter VI: The interpretation and propaganda of Mao Zedong’s PhilosophyAfter the founding of new China, one of the important contents of ShenZhiyuan’s work is interpretate Mao Zedong’s thoughts. Because Shen Zhiyuan’s translations of "the Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism"(Volume1) has played a major role in the formation of Mao Zedong’s thought, so, he has hisown unique understanding about Mao Zedong’s thought. This chapter focuseson the interpretation of Shen Zhiyuan’s interpretation and propaganda about the MaoZedong’s philosophical thoughts after the founding of new China.Shen Zhiyuan made indelible historic contributions for the introduction,dissemination and popularization of the Marxist doctrine to China in his life. We cansay, his academic track, in some degree, reflected the process of Marxist spreadand evolution in China. Expounding Shen Zhiyuan’s text ideas, analysising ShenZhiyuan’s academic road, will accelerate the sinicization and popularization ofMarxist philosophy in contemporary china.