Mao Zedong's Contributions And Mistakes With Respect To The Ideological Route Of The Party

Our Party's ideological route originated by Mao Zedong is the result of the combinationof the ideological route of dialectical materialism and historical materialism originated byMarx and Engels and China's practical conditions. The content of this ideological route isextensive and profound that includes mainly 4 aspects, seeking truth from facts, proceedingfrom actual conditions, combining theory with practice, taking practice as the criterion forjudging truth, with seeking truth from facts being the core and essence. This ideological route has always been our Party's magic weapon for defeating theenemy to win the victory, and a ideological premise for smoothly carrying out revolution andconstruction. And history has repeatedly proved that whenever this ideological route wasfollowed and carried out, the cause of our Party would be flouring and prosperous, and viceversa. It was just because he had founded and advocated this ideological route that MaoZedong could be able to accomplish the combination of Marxism and China's practicalconditions, an extremely complicated and difficult task, so as to have led the Chineserevolution from one victory to another; his tragedy, on the other hand, just lay in his gradualdeviating in his late years from his formerly and consistently advocated ideological route, soto have caused him to commit many mistakes and errors. In general, history has convincinglydemonstrated that this route is truly the lifeblood of our Party and as long as this ideologicalroute is followed, our Party will be able to stand undefeated . Now in the 21^st century, it is really necessary for us to review Mao Zedong's hardexploring of our Party's ideological route, to find its true essence, to get to the heart of themistakes in it and gain a clear idea of the causes of the mistakes, so as to sum up enlighteningexperiences and lessons. And this is the very reason of the writer writing this thesis. Thisconsists of 4 parts.Part I. Mao Zedong and the advancing of the Party's ideological route. In this part, analysisis made of the Chinese Communist Party's preliminary exploring of the Party's ideologicalroute, of the harm done to the Chinese revolution by doctrinarism within the Party, and ofMao Zedong's preliminary exposition of the content of the Party's ideological route.Part II. Mao Zedong and the establishment of the Party's ideological route. This Part is thefocus of the whole article including the discussion of the philosophical basis of the Party'sideological route, Mao Zedong's systematic exposition of the Party's ideological route, andthe establishing process of the Party's ideological route within the whole Party throughYan'an Rectification and the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.Part III. This part discusses Mao Zedong's 2 trends and serious mistakes in the Party'sideological route after the year of 1957, and following Mao Zedong's 20 years' hard exploringtrace, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, investigates the torturous development of theideological route in his late years, then makes an preliminary analysis of its general tendencyas follows, a process of early deviating, temporary returning, re-deviating and committingserious mistakes.Part IV. Mao Zedong's contributions and mistakes in the Party's ideological route. This parttalks about the theoretical and practical meaning of Mao Zedong's exposition of the Party'sideological route and analyzes Mao Zedong's mistakes in the Party's ideological route andsummarizes the experiences and lessons to be learned and drawn. The importance of theideological route must be fully understood; the scientific system of Marxism must becompletely and accurately comprehended and mastered; China's practical condition must becorrectly understood; proceeding from actual conditions; adhering to judging and developtruth in practice; keeping pace with the times.There are approximately 40000 words in this essay.