Studies On The New Democratic Revolution Period Of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Philosophy

In the new-democratic revolution period, Mao Zedong’s cultural philosophy is animportant branch of Mao Zedong’s philosophy. As the first generation of the core ofleadership of the party and the country, Mao Zedong creatively propose a series ofimportant cultural philosophy ideas,through a deep understanding of the culture andthe grasp of China’s national condition, using the basic theory of Marxist philosophyand the cultural philosophy, firmly grasped the culture’s essence, characteristics, andthe law of development, and combined it with the actual development of Chineseculture, which making a great contribution to China’s cultural construction.Mao Zedong’s cultural philosophy in the new-democratic revolution period isdeeply based on the theoretical roots of traditional Chinese culture, Western cultureand early Marxism, which went through by three stages: germination, development,and formation, different stages have different contents and characteristics. The basiccontent of Mao Zedong New-democratic culture philosophy contains three parts:historical materialism interpretation on the nature of culture and its characteristic;cultural status and role of the new-democratic revolution; the ways to build the cultureof new-democratic revolution. Mao Zedong insists on using the historical materialismto analyze the cultural phenomenon, which making a scientific definition of cultureand revealing the essence of the culture. At the same time, considering the concretepractice of the Chinese cultural development, he clarified the dialectical relationshipof culture, politics and economics. Grasping the essential characteristics of the culture,Mao Zedong proposed that the distinction of cultural construction is to establish aculture with nationality, science, mass culture, and the intellectuals. The underlyingcharacteristics of Mao Zedong cultural philosophy is practical, critical and times.Mao Zedong’s cultural philosophy still has a guiding significance for the culturalconstruction of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Firstly, MaoZedong cultural philosophy inherited and developed the Marxist theory of culturalphilosophy; Secondly, it laid the principle of coordinated development of the politics,economics, culture; Furthermore, the nationality, science, mass culture programme isstill the goal of contemporary Chinese culture. Mao Zedong’s cultural philosophy is ahuge contribution to the field of Chinese culture and thought, and it promote culturaldevelopment and prosperity of China.