A Study On Chenduxiu’s Enlightenment Thoughts

Enlightenment thought is an important part of Chen Duxiu’s thought and is an essential part to completely and systematically research Chen Duxiu’s thoughts. Because Chen Duxiu was growing up in modern China, a complex and changeable times, his thought is constantly developing and progressing in with the changes of the historical environment. Because of the particularity of individual life experience, The factors of Chen Duxiu’s thought contained Chinese traditional ideas、Reform improved thought、 Western bourgeois democratic and scientific thought、Marxism etc. These different factors in different period have different influence on Chen Duxiu. Throughout the development process of Chen Duxiu’s enlightenment thoughts, it had experienced from the general reform reformism to radical democracy, and then to Marxism. This transition of Chen Duxiu’s enlightenment thought is changing along with the emphasis of dual task between enlightenment and revolutionary in modern China. Chen duxiu headed from enlightenment to the political revolution road in the national crisis situation.Democracy and science is the most important content of Chen Duxiu’s enlightenment thoughts. He tried to fundamentally reform the national inherent flaw through the democratic and scientific.when the false bourgeois democratic completely exposed in front of him, he chosed proletarian democracy the new advanced thought and hoped it improved the working class’ ethical consciousness, waking up working-class class consciousness. From the whole sense,Chen Duxiu’s enlightenment thought had an important influence on the national consciousness and the party’s early leadership. In a certain extent, he even affected the whole development process of modern China.