The Change Of Mao Zedong's Social Transformation Thought Round About The May 4～(th) Movement

After the May 4^th Movement of 1919, compared with the social transformation prior to the May 4th Movement, Mao Zedong's thought has greatly brought about a change in him. His starting point of exploring society and transforming truth begins to change from mental field into material field. His goal to reach social transformation due to manners' reformation has changed into the transformation of the whole China and world. The social transformation power upon which he depends has changed from hopes on the saints into that on the united people. The transformation, which he has tried, has changed from failure of " worshipping origin" and " calling revolution" into affirming " Russian revolution". The guiding ideology of social transformation, on which he has relied, has changed from " the common people thought" into historical materialism. It is not an accident for youth Mao Zedong's social transformation thought to have changed so much during so short time, but in deep cause. Mao Zedong in his youth has already had the magnificent ambition to seek the truth of saving country and people, and conscientiously combined the stady and practice with his own thought transformation to improve the level of consciousness. After the victory of Russian revolution, he begins to study the experience of its success, and obtains much enlightenment good for Chinese society transformation. Through the study of Marxism works like Manifesto of the Communist Party, he accepts the Marxism class anlytic viewpoints, by which he observes the complex society of China, deepens the essential realization of feudalism and imperialism and sees the broad masses of workers and peasants as the main body of the people. Seeing from " movement of expelling Zhang" and autonomy movement of Hunan province, he comprehends that " Reformism" has no way to go. The change of Mao Zedong's social transformation thought in his youth has brought greatinfluence to Chinese society. It arouses the people's consciousness, breaks " sweeping, blindly and interim" change situation in thought circle and raises the climax of anti-imperialist and anti-feudalist struggle. And what's more, it also lays a good foundation for the Chinese people under the leadership of Mao Zedong to explore the Chinese characteristic social transformation thought...