The Study Of Marxist Belief In Contemporary China

In this thesis, it begins with a probe into the origin of belief, then analyses the essence, characteristics and objective developing laws of belief, which is regarded as a mental phenomenon. Belief is a ubiquitous spiritual life style in human society. Up till now, it has finished the innovation from super nature to common customs, its form has changed from coarseness into exquisiteness, and its essence has leapt from superstition to science. The birth of Marxist Belief not only answers the important question about which course human belief would follow after the common customs religion having reached the impasse, but also makes human belief take on a new look in modern time, changes its appearance, and declares its development. In shot, it is a milestone in the history of human belief.Thus, this thesis logically comes up with the investigation of Marxist Belief, verifies historically and realistically the necessity and possibility of Marxist Belief becoming the mainstream belief in contemporary Chinese society. Marxism itself is not belief, only people's faith to it leads to Marxist Belief. Marxist Belief mainly concerns its believers in that they make Marxism exist as both a theory and belief. There may be certain disparity between the Marxism in believers' minds and the objective theory. The more believers learn about Marxism, the smaller the disparity would be, and nearer the believers would approach the qualified Marxist Belief. The necessity of Marxist Belief becoming the major belief in contemporary Chinese society lies in the value of Marxism itself, and the identity that Chinese traditional thinking mode has with Marxism; the possibility lies in that history has already proved that Chinese traditional Confucianism and western theory about freedom and democracy cannot become the basis of modern Chinese society, and the revolutionary experience of more than 100 years in modern history indicates repeatedly that the struggles against oppression and exploitation will win only when Marxism is regarded as guidelines and the leadership of the advanced working class is obeyed.Meanwhile, this thesis checks the present condition of Marxist Belief in our country, admits that the credibility crisis exists to some extent, and analyses the different reasons resulting into the situation, including the prosperity of market economy, the negative effects of political movements in the past, the problems in CPC's perfecting construction, the impact of belief pluralism, relative lagging of theory innovation of Marxism and the drastic changes of international situation. The analysis contains various aspects such as economy, politics and culture, domestic and abroad, the history and the reality, etc.In accordance with the challenges that Marxist Belief is facing in China, this thesis attaches much importance to the problems about its value and reinventing. It points out that Marxist Belief is not outdated; on the contrary, it is playing a significant role in the areas such as modernization construction, the progress of material, political and spiritual civilizations, strengthening CPC's capability of administration, structuring the harmonious society. Moreover, it contributes to the growth of Marxism itself with each passing hour.At the end of the thesis, it puts forward the idea about how to reinvent Marxist Belief. In detail, it thinks that there are two different groups of Marxist believers. Though the manifestations of the lack of Marxist Belief seem the same, there is difference in nature. Some people have given up belief on the basis of fully understanding Marxism, more persons change their belief without knowing the theory well. The former group consists of intellectuals represented by the scholars specializing in Marxism, and the latter are the broad masses of the people. Intellectuals give up Marxist Belief mainly because of the little attention paid to the theoretical research and lack of value admission. However, the masses of people change their belief chiefly because of the contrast between idea and reality. As to the intellectuals, Marxism is not merely a social ideal, but a kind of academic spirit as well. It should set about resuming the intellectual's Marxist academic belief to reinvent their Marxist Belief. With joint efforts of academia, the intellectuals will mould out new shape of Marxism rich in the spirit of time, make Marxism become a vivid system again to play the role of giving guidelines to society. Thus, Marxism willinevitably be paid attention to by the majority of people and return to the social center from the social edge. So the value of Marxist experts can be fully realized, and their academic belief will be affirmed to the greatest degree, too. The first step to reinvent Marxist Belief of the common people is to carry on scientific Marxism education, so that they can understand the real meaning of the theory. Marxist Belief has tight connection with reality and practice, if there were no realistic achievements to constantly verify and strengthen people's idea, it would be hard to keep their belief. Since reform and opening-up, our country has become more and more prosperous, which is the best condition to consolidate Marxist Belief. At the same time, some negative factors still exist. The leaders should be good at finding the direction of improving our work accurately from people's criticism, and try to make the masses of people experience the power of Marxist Belief in constantly progressive social life, and resume, reinvent Marxist Belief through this way.