Classical Writers Of "underdeveloped Countries" Advanced Culture Development Theory And Its Development In Contemporary China

Marxist classical writers, in the process of guiding socialist construction for Oriental backward countries, highly concerned about the culture development of these countries.Marx and Engels pointed out that in the traditional culture of Russia, China and other countries, there are negative factors of blind loyalty to imperial power and conformism the traditions. But meanwhile these countries have well cultural traditions of solidarity, farelessness of sacrifice as well as heroic fight against foreign enemies. Lenin attaches great importance to cultural development in the process of leading the Russian socialist construction, discussing detailedly on the urgency, context, and measures of the Russian cultural construction. He said, Russia taken over from the Tsar is a anomaly backward countries in culture, only the development of proletarian culture can change the low status of Soviet culture, can we help the working masses to overcome the impact of the backward thinking of the old society, can we help the Soviet Union to build a socialist country; he pointed out that Marxism is the banner of guidelines for the development of advanced culture, and advanced cultural development is "a development of all human knowledge created in the old society that is in line with the laws ", advanced culture contains a" correct understanding of the new Economic Policy"; he believes that in order to promote the development of advanced culture, we must strengthen the building of the party’s ideology, strengthen the "social education" through a variety of channels, as well as give full play to the old intellectuals and old experts.Mao inherited the ideology of Marxism-Leninism on cultural development, and put forwarded many important ideas in accordance with China’s national conditions and development needs. Since the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zeming and Hu Jintao, on behalf of the Chinese Communists, constantly enrich and innovation advanced cultural theory with Chinese characteristics based on the inherited and developed basic theories of classical writers on development of advanced culture, according to the developing characteristics of the times and the actual needs of China’s modernization.Deng Xiaoping pointed out that in order to break the ideological rigidity caused by the "Cultural Revolution" and to breakthrough the imprison of the "two whatevers" thinking, we must emancipate our minds, seek truth from facts, and liberate people’s minds from the fetters of dogmatism; He also pointed out that, the construction of spiritual civilization must be strengthen. Only when material civilization and spiritual civilization are both done well can we build up the socialism with Chinese characteristics; he also proposed to train new person of "Four Haves". Jiang Zemin pointed out that in the face of the new international and domestic situation, the party should raise awareness of cultural construction, should always represent the direction of advanced culture; should put the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the premise and an important part of building socialism with Chinese characteristics; should put the achievement of all-round development of the people as the starting point and goal of China’s advanced culture construction. Hu pointed out that building a harmonious society is an important goal of building the socialism with Chinese characteristics, in which harmonious culture is an important task to achieve social harmony, as well as a spiritual motivation to achieve a harmonious society. He stressed that we should put the harmonious culture as the theme of the cultural work at this stage. He also proposed the proposition of core value system of socialist and treated it as the fundamental of building a harmonious culture.By the classical writers of proletarian culture and ideology to the construction of the Communist Party of China the development of advanced culture theory, the system is come down in one continuous line,which is the guideline for the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.