Historical Drilling Upon The Relationship Between Marxism Ideology And National Character

Checking out the old and traditional research, national character is always considered as a concept of culture and society, which normally focuses on effect about economic principle towards national character and the feature of location, stability or origination that national character is oriented. however,it is a must for this paper so that it will be defined as a concept according to historical view, Specifically, in accordance with the process of Marxism which gains the point to be Chinese social ideology and its conversion of status and function, this paper is supposed to divides Chinese society into six periods for three-dimensional analysis, these six periods are The times before New Democratic Revolution,The period of New Democratic Revolution, The early years of New China, The period of Cultural Revolution, The early years of Reformation and Opening Up and The period that Reformation and Opening Up is under the complete empowerment.Firstly, relating Marxist ideology to the national character absolutely require social ecological environment formed through correlated blend of the given factors such as economic operation mode, political system, familiar social structure and the concept of the people's thought and culture.Secondly,as the superstructure of a society, Marxist ideology is confined to the social ecological environment argued above,in the given one of which the ideology and the concurrent concept of the culture and thought together have impact people,and become the intemalization of people's comprehensive quality,like concept of value, psychological characteristics, cognitive pattern and thinking habit, namely the national character discussed in this article.Therefore,with the social and historical changes of ecological environment,the relationship between Marxist ideology and the national character generally show positive correlation.Thirdly, although Marxist ideology tend to weaken now,it still must play the leading role in realizing the generation of the theoretical essence derived from the unity of Marxist historical construction and logic criticism, the unlimited extensive quality of Marxist ideology, the great object of communist value and the improvement of the future national character. Especially speaking, this article is divided into six chapter:Chapter I, the relationship between ideology and national character before New Democratic Revolution. Firstly this chapter defines the concept of national character and ideology, then it explores the relationship between them in traditional society and old democratic revolutionary period. In traditional society, agricultural production was the main operation pattern of economy, homes and states shared the same organizational mode, highly centralized monarchy prevailed in the political world. As a result, a grade-honored Confucian ideology which eliminates all individuality and the apathetic national character stamped by shunning every external affair were gradually formed, reflecting the interpenetration of these two parts. However, this kind of relationship was broken by the semi-colonization course in the old democratic revolution during which industrial production patterns constantly challenged agricultural ones, family structure became diversified, and western political idea of freedom and democracy was introduced. Consequently, Confucian ideology lost its leading role in the ideological world, and the national character was also found in troubled waters. Chapter 2, the relationship between ideology and national character during new democratic revolutionary period and the early days after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Before and after the May 4th movement, with the growth of china's communist party, Marxism was introduced to china and then was integrated with the movement of farmers and workers, which finally lead to the success of the new democratic revolution. Here ideology and national character show a two-way interaction of functional direction and value agglomeration, which continued to exist in the early days after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, resulting in considerable advancement in economic, political and cultural spheres. In those days, the "one or the other" mode of Marxism ideology and the positive national character posture characterized by self-reliance and industrial working showed the functional direction and value internalization between ideology and national character. Chapter 3, the relationship between ideology and national character during the Cultural Revolutionary period. The great economic achievements made at the early days after the foundation of the People's Republic of China bogged people's thoughts in the non-scientist and voluntarism modes. A series of incidents such as the blind implementation of the "great leap forward", the rise of bureaucracy and the "peaceful evolvement" conducted by foreign capitalist forces leaded to the extension of Marxism, along with which truth and human nature was ignored and anarchic character was formed. This helps to explain the relevancy between the extension of ideology and the blind as well as indifferent national character. Chapter 4, The analysis of the relationship between the mainstream ideology of Marxism and national character during the early time of implementing of the reform and opening up policy. As the convening of the Third Session of Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, the economic construction has come back. The party has implemented the opening up and reform policy, the capital economy and the mechanism of market competition has also been practiced in China, the public-ownership economic system, which was proved wrong during the past practice has been severely lashed. Some positive factors, such as individualism has perfectly integrated with traditional culture. The ideology of Marxism has transformed and the content and form has been rebuilt, thus the ideology of Marxism has indeed become the mainstream ideology of our country. The national character presents a positive state of equal competition, multiple independent, liberal democracy and ideal pursuit. The mainstream ideology of Marxism and national character has shown a logical relationship which characterized by overall construction and the exertion of affective effect. Chapter 5, The analysis of the relationship between the mainstream ideology of Marxism and national character after the roundly implement of the policy of reform and opening up. As the roundly advancement of the reform and opening up policy, the marketing economy has penetrated to all the dimension of social life, unhealthy consciousness and phenomena has gradually increased. The single person has been unidirectionalized, and the society has shown some symptom of polarized, people has cast doubt on the principle of social equality and social justice. The mainstream ideology of Marxism presenting a trend which is unceasingly weakened, at the same time, the national character also presenting a tendency of money worship, idea deficiency and responsibility shirking, it clearly reveal the logical relationship between the two sides which is characterized by the weaken of the leading functions and the loose national cohesion. Chapter 6, Boosting the national character towards perfect under the leadership of the ideology of Marxism. As the improving of the national character will still be under the leading of the ideology of Marxism, under the premise of enhancing the dominant position of the mainstream ideology of Marxism, we should boost our citizen stride forward the object characterized by rational independent, be willing to take on responsibility and opened through the implement of some measures such as the integration of economy beneficial, eliminating the phenomena of privilege, constructing the new pattern of ideological culture.The above discretion shows that there exists a very complex relationship between Marxism and national character. This paper use a period of the most typical national character as the denoting object, which reveals the most basic logical relationship between Marxism and national character in a specific period as follows:firstly, the Marxism lead Chinese to overthrow the feudal dynasty and reorganize the social structure when it raise to be a ideology. Secondly, in the period of "Cultural Revolution", the trend that Marxism used as a universal ideology linked to the national character of slavish and apathy directly. Thirdly, at the beginning of reforming and opening, there existed a rationality construction and positive but logical relationship between Marxism and national character. Finally, when the "Reforming and Opening" is advanced in the round, the function between Marxism and the national character gradually weakened and the relationship between them were tending to be money worship even nihilism.In a word, by making a historical pectination and logical promotion of the internal relation between Marxism ideology and national character, this paper enriches and deepens the research of the two subjects above. And it also widens the research route, as well as the study angle, of the Adapting Marxism to Conditions in China, especially the Adapting Marxism Philosophy to Conditions in China.