An Analysis Of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought

Under the guidance of the materialistic concept of history,Mao Zedong critically absorbed the traditional thought of people-orientedness of China and the democratic thought of the East and the West. He applied the Marxist concept of the Mass to the practice of the democratic revolution and socialist construction of China, on the basis of which a series of original and theoretical summaries were made. While these summaries finally produce Mao Zedong's People-oriented thought which is the succession and development of the Marxist concept of the Mass and the traditional people-oriented thought of China, and they are the scientific people-oriented thought.Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought is a complete unity with some systematic interior relationships. It takes the idea that the people is the power that creates the world history as the theoretical cornerstone, the belief that the people is the master of the country as the core, the thought that the party should serve the people heart and soul as the starting and finishing points, and the principle that the power comes from the mass and should be used to serve the mass in turn as the basic approach.Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought is very significant not only theoretically but practically. Theoretically, it inherits and develops the traditional people-oriented thought of China and the Marxist concept of the Mass. In practice, it guides the democratic revolution of China to a complete success and the socialist construction of China to a primary success. Although the situations and tasks we face in the new historical era have taken profound changes, Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought is still the ideological weapon that the Party uses to finish all kinds of tasks well in the new era with new situations, and it is an important trump that we use to conquer all kinds of difficulties, in addition, it is the stable ideological base for the great revival of the Chinese nation. The adherence of the People-oriented Thought is the call of the era and the aspirations of the people and it is also the crux that the vitality of our party can be unlimited. What's more, it is the political theme that draws the attention from the leaders of our party of all generations, and in fact it is the permanent historic subject of Communist Part of China. Right now, we are in the great historic course of constructing the socialist harmonious society and a well-off society from all aspects, and boosting the new great project of our party as well, thus the study of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought is undoubtedly of great importance and value to modern society. Therefore, the author of this thesis takes Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought as the subject of study, expecting that it will be helpful to the settlement of the problems we face right now.The analysis in this thesis is divided into four parts, and the main content of them are outlined as the following.In the introduction part, we first state briefly the reasons why the author chooses Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought as the subject of study and significances of the study, and then outlines the researches constructed in the academic world about this subject, and based on these literature reviews, the author points the breakthrough that this thesis made on the study of this subject. At last, the author points that this thesis adopts the approach of philology as the main approach of study and introduces the general structure of this thesis briefly.Chapter one dissertates the formation of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought. Firstly, the author states the conditions of the formation of it, including the following: 1) The traditional people-oriented thought of China, Marxism, the democratic thought of the East and the West of latter days and the experiences of the revolutionary struggles of Chinese in history provide the ideological condition for the formation of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought. 2) The revolutionary practice and struggles of Chinese people are the practical bases of the formation of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought. In addition, we also discuss the three procedures of the formation of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought as the following: 1) the germinating period (1908, A.D-1920, A.D); 2) the forming period (1921, A.D -1945, A.D); 3) the maturating period (after the success of Anti-Japanese War).Chapter two generalized and expatiated on the four basic elements of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought, which include the following: 1) we discuss Mao Zedong's thought that the people is the power which creates the world history from three aspects, that is, the mass is the subject of social practice, the creator of the wealth in society and the principle driving force of reform in society. 2) we analyze Mao Zedong's thought that the people is the master of the country from three aspects, that is, the people is the subject of national rights, fathering that state and supervising the implementation of rights. 3) We discuss Mao Zedong'thought of serving the people from four aspects, that is, serving the people is the basic starting and ending points that Chinese people struggles for liberation and affluence, develops cultural and educational course and promote the all-round development of people. 4) We discuss Mao Zedong'thought of the line of the mass from two aspects, that is, the connotations and the applying approaches of the mass line.Chapter three analyzed the modern values of the four different ideological view-points of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought from the aspects of the four basic contents respectively, on the base of which we can synthesize the general modern values of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought. The main values include the following:1) The thought that the people is the power that create the history of the world of Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought provides the theoretical guidance for us to reveal correctly the power mine of the modernization of China. To be more specific, the division of the category of the mass in Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought gives us the theoretical guidance to correctly reveal the power mine of the modernization construction in the new era.2) the idea that the people is the master of the state in Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought provides us with the theoretical gist and guidance to change the conception of reigning and improving our ability to reign. To build up the conception of reigning for the people is the necessary requirement for us to realize the thought of making the people the master of the country in the new situation. To enlarge the domain of the people's democracy and develop the grass-root democracy are the practical route to realize the thought of making the people the master of the country.3) The principle of serving the people heart and soul in Mao Zedong's People-oriented Thought supply us with some inspirations to build a service-type government and solve the living problems of the people right now. On the one hand, the principle of serving the people heart and soul is the theoretical base of building a service-type government; on the other hand, the principle of serving the people heart and soul also provide us some theoretical guidance for solving the living problems of the people right now.4) The thought of the mass line in Mao Zedong's People-oriented give us the basic work method to build the socialist harmonious society. The mass line is the approach to carry out the important thought of the three representatives; it is the work method to carry out and fulfill the theory of scientific development; it is the organizing line to build the harmonious society and the political line to improve our party's ability to reign.