Critical Study Plekhanov Populism

Plekhanov’s criticism of Populism is his important activities and one of the historical achievements of the period as a Marxist. Plekhanov’s criticism of Populism is based on the profound social and historical context, it is the result of both subjective and objective conditions. In the environment of the development of world capitalism and the rise of the international workers’ movement, the Russian capitalism and the workers’ movement had also got preliminary development. In order to criticize Populism, Plekhanov also did lots of theoretical preparation work and social practice activities.By writing Marx’s works, Plekhanov launched a comprehensive and profound criticism of populist, seized the four main fallacies of populist that they deny capitalism in Russia, attempt to realize socialist on the development of peasant commune socialism, advocate individual heroism of the idealistic history view and opposite political struggle, criticized populist deeply according to the Marx’s theory of weapons, basically smashed the theoretical basis of Populism. While in the process of criticizing, Plekhanov did not completely shattered the theoretical foundation of Populism, and even misunderstood some important principles of Marx historical materialism, but as the first revolutionist and theorists in Russian history who toke Marxism as the theoretical weapon to criticize populist, Plekhanov cleared the way for Marxism in the spread of Russian, enriched and developed the Marxism theory treasure, also laid the ideological basis for setting up Russia Marxism party, his historical contribution is indelible.Plekhanov had written a number of Marx’s works in the struggle with the Populist, left many precious ideas for future generations, such as how to deal with the relationship of adhering to Marxism and developing Marxism, how to deal with the relationship between farmers and the socialist revolution and construction as well as the relationship between capitalist and socialist’s construction and reform and other issues, left us with a profound revelation.