A Historical Survey Of Mao Zedong's Cultural Confidence Thought

Mao Zedong devoted all his life to exploring and creating a real new culture for the whole world.In the arduous,great practice of leading the Chinese revolution and construction,he made the Chinese nation “stand up” spiritually,put an end to the “passive mental state” of the Chinese people,and wrote a glorious chapter of “cultural confidence” in the human history.During the New Culture Movement,Mao Zedong established a belief in Marxism,and gave a definite answer to a series of important questions in theory,such as why cultural confidence could be achieved,how to achieve cultural confidence and what was the goal of cultural confidence.Creatively,he built the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation on the “inherent great ability of the Chinese nation”,a base of the highest vitality,thereby avoiding eulogizing the past at the expense of the present and improperly belittling China while comparing it with foreign countries,inheriting the national spirit of “ceaseless self-improvement”,and injecting tremendous spiritual power into “today's” creation by the Chinese nation.From the early days of the Party to the agrarian revolution,Mao Zedongfocused on raising the workers and peasants' class consciousness in practice.After the failure of the Great Revolution,he enhanced the morale of the depressed communists and revolutionary masses with a firm belief that “a single spark can start a prairie fire”.Based on the principle of ideological Party building and raising political awareness in the military,he radically resolved the major issue of how to build the Party organization and Red Army,composed mainly of peasants,into a political party of the proletariat and a new type of people's army.After“creating a new Soviet culture for the workers and peasants”,he clearly pointed out that the culture should “serve the revolutionary war and class struggle”,and also educated the toiling masses with the communist spirit.The magnificent epic of the Long March is an immortal monument cast from the communist ideal and belief.During the Anti-Japanese War,Mao Zedong founded the cultural theory of triumphalism,greatly boosting the “national confidence” in defeating the Japanese imperialists.The cultural theory of new democracy became a powerful theoretical guide under which the Communist Party of China led the Chinese people in “developing a new national culture and enhancing the national confidence”.Under the leadership of Mao Zedong,the Chinese communists succeeded in building an intra-party political culture based on the national culture.During the “Rectification Movement in Yan'an”,he built methodological confidence in the intra-party political culture,and then built confidence in the values of intra-party political culture in three essays written by him.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War,China had to make a choice between two futures,which represented two destinies.As for whether China would win a complete victory in the new-democratic revolution,Mao Zedong clearly pointed out,“It depends on the Chinese people's consciousness,unity and effort”.From August to September1949,he published five comments on the White Paper of China-U.S.Relations,giving a profound answer to the question why “the Chinese culture has,from a spiritual perspective,surpassed the whole capitalist world.”After the founding of the People's Republic of China,Mao Zedong established Marxism as a guiding ideology in the culture field by“reforming” the culture field the transition from New Democracy to socialism.After the establishment of the socialist system,he proposed to“promote the development of the socialist cultural undertakings in contention and confrontation”,always emphasizing that the ideological work is the soul.He put forward the important thought of preventing peaceful evolution,clearly answered the question where people's correct thoughts come from,and carried out the socialist education movement in a deep-going way.He used the Marxist materialist dialectics to deeply analyze the contradictions in the socialist society,and gave a profound answer to the question why the booming development of the socialist culture needs a “contention of a hundred schools of thought”.The cultural development pattern established under the guidance of the “two hundred”policy and the idea of “making the past serve the present and foreign things serve China” is grand,confident and open.Although history proves that the road is tortuous,his firm brief would surely be made true that“we will appear in the world as a nation with an advanced culture”.Mao Zedong' thought on cultural confidence is based on a constant belief in the great ability of the Chinese nation,aiming to create a “real new culture” for the whole world by building a Marxist cultural belief system with the intra-party political culture of the Communist Party of China as the core;it offers support to the unique and powerful cultural advantages of the Communist Party of China,lays a solid historical foundation for “renewing” the Chinese culture,and provides profound ideological resources for strengthening the “four matters of confidence”in the new era.