The Research Of Chen Duxiu's Political Thought Conversion And Its Reasons During The May Fourth Movement

Chen Duxiu is a figure of great complexity and far-reaching influence in the China's modern history.His political thinking covers the two stages:the Old Democratic Revolution and the New Democratic Revolution and is a part of the spiritual legacy of the early history of Communist Party of China(CPC).The May Fourth Movement is the watershed of the old democratic revolution and the new-democratic revolution in china,and is the critical period of Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion.In that turbulent era,Chen Duxiu completed the change from a Radical democrat to be a Marxist through a variety of rational choice theory, which constituted the most glorious page of his personal career.From then on,he was to embark on a new path to create the Communist Party of China,contact the Comintern,unite the Chinese Nationalist Party and launch the national revolution,and so on.It can be said that from the establishment of the Communist Party of China to the development and failure of national revolution,was inextricably linked to the Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement.Therefore,the objective analysis of the Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement has important theoretical significance and academic value.This paper applied the method of historical materialism,vertical analysis and horizontal method of combining research,as well as the comparative study.And this paper in-depth studied the Chen Duxiu's political thought changing track during the May Fourth Movement, analyzed the reasons for the changes his thought,and made this change the overall evaluation.The first part of the paper combed the Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement.The early New Culture Movement,Chen Duxiu to the theory of evolution for the world picture,held high the banner of democracy and science,criticized the feudal ethical code,introduced and spread the Western democracy to China.From the influence of October Revolution in Russia and the May Fourth Movement,Chen Duxiu gradually transformed into a early Marxist.His thought changes at this period reflected mainly for two:abandoning democracy and recognition of the Marxist.The second part of the paper analysis and research the reasons of Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement.Form the trajectory of Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement,it can be seen that it is not a single line of the process of transforming a Marxist,but more than one dimension,complex and full of contradictions and even before and after.The success of the October Revolution in Russia,the crisis of meetings in Paris,the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement and the wide spread of Marxism in china constituted the external factors of his thought changing.And doctrine for a variety of comparison and selection of the rational is subjective reasons for his reception Marxism.A variety of sporadic case is the intrinsic reason of his change.The third part of the paper made a overall assessment to the Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement.First of all,analysis the impact of the Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement.Led to a "new youth" Writers group fissile;promote the wide dissemination of Marxism in China.And then, analysis the character of Chen Duxiu's political thought conversion during the May Fourth Movement.Picked up the pace of the trend of the times;change at multiple choice.