From The Radical Democrat To Marxist

Freedom was the highest goal for human life, and the modern inlightened Chinese had kept on struggling, and searching for this faith of freedom. Dazhao Li the forerunner of communistic campaign, and earlier Marxist was one of the pursuers, and always tried to explore the way to fulfill the freedom and protect the achievement. His opinion on freedom was special compared to the liberalists in the Marxism team, which comprised the important part of his thought.Dazhao Li's freedom thought was deep influenced by western Liberalism, Marxism, and traditional Chinese culture. But his thought changed a lot on the occurrence of October Revolution, and so be separated into two phases. In the prophase, Dazhao Li's opinion about freedom was influenced by John Stuart Mill and had the propensity of bourgeoisie freedom; In the later period, his opinion was influenced by Marxism and had connected with Socialism. His pinion about freedom was quite different in contests, characteristic, and reasons for its forming by comparing the prophase and the later period. Upon the analyses, we can see that freedom was the basic idea of his politics view. Freedom not only penetrated in his value, controlled his thought, and was his sprit of thought system.Through this essay, we can have a further study on Marxists on one hand, and make more knowledge on this problem on the other hand. What more , some factors of Dazhao Li's freedom opinion has some significance for the establishment of our democracy and legal system, and has been the precious heritage.