Mao Zedong And Marxism Nationalism In China

Mao Zedong is a great marxist,he is also an important promoter of Marx nationalism theoryin China. Mao Zedong always adhered to Marx’s national theory as the instruction during theperiod of new democratic revolution and the socialist revolution, he combined fundamentaltenets of marxism nationalism theory with concrete practice of China and established thepolicy of national theory system with Chinese characteristics, that is Mao Zedong’s nationaltheory, it realized the sinicization of marxist national theory and enriched and developed marxistnational theory. Marxist national theory is the theoretical foundation of the national policy of thecommunist party of China, the process of sinicization of marxism is inherently contains theprocess of the sinicization of marxist national theory. Mao Zedong as the first generation ofcollective leadership of the communist party of China, he played an important role in thepromotion of the sinicization of marxist national theory and had made important theoreticalresults, this is not only embodied in the development of the theory of national and ethnicproblems,but also in the development of the theory of solving national problems, it included: thetheory of regional national autonomy, the theory of national equality and unity, the theory ofnational development and prosperity, the theory of national recognition and extinction, etc. Thesetheoretical results had greatly enriched and developed the national theory of Marx. On theinvestigation to Mao Zedong and the sinicization of Marxist national theory we can found thatMao Zedong’s promotion to the sinicization of marxist national theory has its objectivebackground and historical process, the process of Mao Zedong promoting the sinicization ofmarxist national theory has important guiding significance to promote marxism today.Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, our country won the victory of nationalism revolutionand established the new China, the domestic nationalities got the liberation, this deepened theunderstanding of the relationship between ethnic problems and social revolution of marxism.Mao Zedong carried the national recognition in the minority area at the beginning of new China,he developed the national definition of Stalin and formed the national identification theory withchinese characteristics, which made great achievements, the minority recovered their nationalityand ethnic identity. In order to make the people of all ethnic groups to get rid of oppression andgo on a path to socialism development, Mao Zedong launched the democratic reform andsocialist transformation in minority areas. Mao Zedong has always attached great importance to ethnic problems, the thought of ethnic equality and unity are always through Mao Zedong’sethnic theory, he put forward the goal of the development and prosperity of all nationalities, itpromoted the economic development and social progress of ethnic minorities, the han nationalityand ethnic people formed the relationship of equality and unity in long—term social life, inaddition, Mao Zedong launched the ethnic regional autonomy in minority nationality areas,vigorously develop and use the cadres of ethnic minorities, regional national autonomy system asthe basic system of solving ethnic problems in China has showed great superiority.The process of Mao Zedong promoting Marx’s national theory in China not only promotedthe development of chinese revolutionary war, but also promoted China’s national unity andsocial stability, it is conductive to the promotion of economic development and social progress inethnic minority area, at the same time, it provided successful experiences for other countries tosolve national problems. Marxist viewed ethnic problems as part of the total social problems, toproperly solve China’s ethnic problems, we need to take history as a mirror and sum upexperience and lessons,these can provide the beneficial reference to continue to push forwardthe sinicization of marxist national theory and properly solve the ethnic issues in contemporaryChina.