The Study About Cai Hesen's View On Marxism

This article is a study about Cai Hesen's view on Marxism. Cai Hesen was one of the early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, recognized as an outstanding Marxist theorist and propagandist. He was one of the initiators of Xinmin Society and the organizers of the French Work-study Practice. He also took part in the "May 4th" movement. In France, he became a Marxist, later he returned to China and actively involved in Chinese people's revolutionary struggle. He assumed a leading position in our party for a long time. Cai Hesen conducted a careful study on Marxism and formed his view of Marxism in the revolutionary practice. This study about Cai Hesen's view on Marxism is helpful for us to understand and adhere to Marxism better.This article has two parts, Includes introduction and body composition. The body composition is also divided into three parts.Introduction section introduces the research object and the significance, points out that the study is mainly about Cai Hesen's basic idea of "what is Marxism" and "how to treat Marxism", expounds the research significance and modern value. This article also discussed the academic research, introduces the research methods and innovation points, emphasizes that the study is an innovative attempt in itself and will help to promote the study depth of Cai Hesen's ideas.The first part of the body, analyzed historical process and influencing factors when Cai Hesen's view formed and developed. This paper thinks the forming of Cai Hesen's view includes bud, establish, develop and deepen stage and explained the reason for this division. Also this article mainly analyzed the influence factors when it forming and developing from the subjective and objective aspects. In the subjective side, we emphasized Cai Hesen's patriotic feelings, perseverance spirits and strong self-learning ability. In the objective side, we analyzed political, economic and cultural factors and stressed his practical activities in Chinese revolution.The second part of the body analyses the basic elements of Cai Hesen's view on Marxism. This includes two parts:the first part is "how to consider Marxism", including Cai Hesen's understanding about the nature of Marxism, the system of Marxism, the historical materialism, the class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat, the mass viewpoint of Marxism and the Socialist revolution theory of Marxism. The second part is "how to treat Marxism", including Cai Hesen's theoretical understanding and practice. In Cai Hesen's opinion, upholding and developing Marxism must struggle with all sorts of wrong ideas about Marxism and combine Marxism and Chinese specific situation, form his own theory in practice. Only in this can we defend Marxism. Cai Hesen not just said so, but also practiced it personally. He also actively publicized revolution theory and practiced Marxism, he established Guide Weekly and wrote articles to inform people about the basic theoretical knowledge of Marxism, he formulated strategies according China's actual situation, continuously push Chinese revolution movement to develop.The third part of the body analyses the historical status, modern value and historical limitations of Cai Hesen's view on Marxism. In the aspect of historical status, Cai Hesen's ideas made an important contribution to forming MAO Zedong Thought and New-democratic Revolution Theory; In the aspect of modern value, Cai Hesen's ideas has important significance as reference in deepening our understanding of Marxism, innovating and developing Marxism in practice. In the aspect of limitations, we point out that Cai Hesen's view on Marxism lack of systematicness, his post-ideas showed his "Left" tendencies, but this cannot deny his excellent theoretical contributions for our party.