Introduction And Research Of Construction Journal On Marx's Theory

From the upsurge of radical students' and workers' movement, Sen Yat-sen found the new political strength on which Chinese revolution can rely and realized that the old Three people's principles couldn't take role of directing the masses, under his leadership, kuo mingtang theorists started a new search on new theory. Apart from introducing the western democratic theories, the main feature of Kuoming tang's Theory at that time is that it paid much attention to Marxism and socialism. This was reflected in the Construction Journal which published in July 1919 in Shanghai.The editors of the magzine such as Zhu Zhixin, Daijitao and Hu Hanming had experience in introducing socialism before the revolution of 1911. urged by the success of the Russian October Revolution and the natural relationship between workers' movement and Marxism, they began to pay attention to Marx's th'eory with a second thought.One feature of the Construction Journal is that it focused on the translation and introduction of principles and original works of Marxism. Hu Hanming provided the most complete interpretation for historical materialism Principle. Dai jitao translated karl kautsky's work "Karl Marx's Economics" from the Japanese version. Xu Suzhong introduced key chapters of "The development of socialism from Utopia to Scientific" to Chinese readers. Lin Yun-hai distinguished scientific socialism from Utopia and explained the principle of class struggle, while introducing International socialist movement and thoughts.The construction Journal explored Chinese history and social problems by using the principles of Marx's historical materialism as well as economics and achieved good results Forexample, Social ideaology is determined by social life. Chinese socaial turmoil is due to the imperialist's economic invasion, labor's liberation is the basis of women emancipation. The best answear for China to the international trend of socialism is not refutation but adaption.From the viewpoint of old Three people's principles, Construction Journal neglected the social relation between human when using pure economy view to define historical materialism theory. So it misunderstood Marxism and opened the gate for propagating class compromise and class cooperation. In veltanschauung, the kuo ming-tang are believers of Three People's Principles, not Marxism.Even so, Construction Journal's Introduction and research of Marx's eory and the close relationship among Construction Journal, Weekly Review and Shanghai Marxism Research Committee all forcefully proved that it was an important battlefield in the dissemination of Marxism in the May Fourth period.