Mao Zedong New Democracy Culture Theory And Its Contemporary Value

During the new democratic revolution period, Mao Zedong’s newdemocratic culture thought was proved to be correct in the revolutionarypractice. It was established as the cultural guiding ideology of the party,which is a powerful ideological weapon of the new democratic revolutionand the fundamental guiding principle of the party’s cultural work with richcontent and important guiding significance. The paper combed anddemonstrated Mao Zedong’s new democratic culture thought. It graduallyclarified the thoughts, features, functions, and limitations of new democraticculture thought and explored the value of the new democratic culturethought in contemporary Chinese culture construction.By means of literature analysis, according to reading a large number ofbooks and literature, we knew that Mao Zedong’s culture thought wasaffected by Chinese traditional culture, which existed with Marxism,Western philosophy in new democratic revolutionary practice. After the"May Fourth Movement" infant and the formation of rural revolutionarybase area period, in February1940,"New Democracy Marxist theory "waspublished, which marked the formation of Mao Zedong’s new democraticculture thought. Using the methods of comprehensive analysis, inducingand analyzing document literaturethrough horizontal and verticalcomparative study, analyzing the content of socialist culture, summing upthe basic principle of Mao Zedong’s new democratic culture construction，character of Mao Zedong’s new democratic culture thought, Mao Zedong’spolicies about protecting intellectual and making them play a role.Using the methods of history analysis, Mao Zedong’s new democraticculture thought was the premise, restoring to a specific historical period,further tapping the potential of Mao Zedong’s new democratic cultureessence, refining the essence and theoretical kernel. Through mining Mao Zedong’s new democratic culture thought, exploring the basic law of thesocialism cultural development, we knew that Mao Zedong’s newdemocratic culture thought was theoretical guidance, direction and methodsof China socialist cultural construction.We can draw a conclusion from the paper that Mao Zedong’s newdemocratic culture thought has an important stage in the history of Chinesecultural development. Mao Zedong’s new democratic culture is the classicaltheory of the combination of Marx theory and the Chinese new democraticrevolution practice. It not only made the Chinese people get rid of theimperialist and feudal oppression, and provide a powerful ideologicalweapon for the victory of new democratic revolution, but also it was theimportant theoretical source and guiding ideology of developing thecontemporary China characteristic social culture construction, and advancedculture, promoting the reform of the cultural system, constructing socialistharmonious society.