The Long March: Seen From The Perspective Of Political Socialization

The political socialization is a process of education and training,through which the governing class publicize their political culture to thecrowds in order to ensure their governing. During this process, thepolitical socialization firstly turns out to be a process of politicalpropaganda, that is, the process of transportation of political thoughts,principle, mind, and the way of their behavior and so on to the membersof the society; moreover, the political socialization is also a process ofpersonal learning on political culture. The members of the society buildup their own political conception and political volition, and set up theirway of action under the exertion of a subtle influence from education.The political socialization is the local consolidation of these twoprocesses. In the 1930's, the Long March is a military tactical transferundertaken by the Red Army after the failure of the fifth SuppressionCampaign. In this process, the CCP led political socialization in thesurrounding areas; The Long March is the political socialization of theCCP. It is significant to investigate the political socialization boththeoretically and practically to CCP, the party in power of our country.This article is analyzing the two aspects of the political socialization:first of all, it is the process of radiation of the CCP's political discipline,including the establishment of the content, the useful media and the main character during the process. The author found that the contents of thepolitical socialization are not only the inoculation from the party, but alsoa mutual process between the two parties; during the Long March, theusual media of political socialization, such as families and schools, hadlost their formal effect. Instead, the form of CCP, the soviet government,and the folk's revolution organization especially the Red Army playedvery important roles in the political socialization. Secondly, it is theinternalization of the political CCP's political theory of people, whichbrings the support to the CCP and the Chinese Worker's and Peasants'Red Army. This article discusses the support from the people and itsmanifestation, finding that it is the political socialization of the CCP thatinsures the ultimately success of the Long March.This article points out what the political socialization of the LongMarch inspires us: we should go on with the Sinicization of Marxism andthe innovation of political culture, insist on the nucleal leadership of CCP,enrich the ways of political socialization, pay more attention to theself-construction of the party and the government, and stand to the basicinterests of the general people.