Research On The Popularization Of Marxism In Yanan Period

The Communist Party of China has inherited and developed Marxism in China’s revolution and construction and reform process, and promotes its chinizatio^modernization and popularization, forms Mao Zedong Thought and theoretical system of Chinese socialism. During the process Marxism popularization is to popularize and substantiate the basic principles and basic points, formulate some related routines, principles and policies, with the purpose of being accepted by people.Yan’an revolutionary process is a crucial historical period during the New-democratic revolution, an important period of Marxism popularization. At this stage the Chinese Communist Party mapped out and implemented a series of relevant political, economic, cultural, educational, military and other important policies and measures to enrich and develop Marxism.China has a long historical and cultural tradition of the ancient civilization, and culture has formed a "psychological accumulation" in the minds of Chinese people. Ultimately, the spread of culture is a kind of mental activity that people are inevitably influenced by their thinking patterns and mental factors. So in order to root and develop in china, Marxism as a foreign advanced culture must be sinicized; in order to be understood, approved and accepted, it must be popularized. During the process of Marxism popularization, it is out of question to be combined with people’s traditional ways of thinking, behavior patterns and Chinese traditional cultural psychology.Chinese traditional cultural psychology includes rich content. The thesis selects five aspects:morality, knowledge and practice, art concept, concept of obligation and concept of saving face. On the base of the brief introduction of social and cultural and environmental backgrounds, especially the people’s psychology, the thesis explores the functions of morality to spread communism morality; it explores the functions of knowledge and practice to confirm the relations between theory and practice as well as to establish ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts; it explores the functions of concept of obligation to organize and encourage people to enter the war against Japanese army; it explores the functions of concept of saving face to call on people to carry out the policies; it explores the functions of art concept to publicize the policies to change people’s thinking. About nowadays Marxism popularization by doing such research the thesis finally expresses the important experience and emphasizes the important enlightenment: epochal character, basement of people, flexibility and diversity.