Research On Mao Zedong’s Cultural Hegemony Thought

The leadership of a political party, not only in terms of economic, political and military, also includes an ideological culture as the core of leadership. The success of the Chinese Communist Party in power and the cause of socialism, in a certain sense, depending on the proletariat and its culture force. Mao Zedong as a great men who have made great influence on modern China and the world in many fields, such as political, economic, military and so on. At the same time, Mao Zedong’s cultural hegemony thought has also made great influence on the construction of cultural hegemony about the Chinese Communist Party.Mao Zedong’s cultural hegemony thought had builded up under the historical background of the big bang between Chinese and Western culture, which has rich contents of practice and theory. The thought has four stages which include embryonic stage, preliminary stage, mature stage and in-depth development stage. Mao Zedong attached great importance to the construction of cultural hegemony. He defined the development goals and objectives of cultural hegemony. In the meantime, he established the guiding status of Marxism and ensured the cultural hegemony of the proletariat by some ways which like critique of slavish culture, strengthening cultural education, carrying out the rectification movement, transformation of intellectuals, shaping public art and forging a united front. Mao Zedong’s cultural hegemony thought has many characteristics in the process, such as sharp class position, strong critical spirit and highly cultural consciousness.Mao Zedong’s cultural hegemony thought is the product of the combination with the basic theory of Marxism and Chinese revolutionary practice, the important part of Mao Zedong Thought and the theoretical basis and ideological guarantee to the career of Chinese revolution and construction. At present, world culture has entered the phase of big communication, the development and prosperity of the Chinese characteristic socialist culture is directly related to the success or failure of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the realization of the dream of the great renaissance of Chinese nation. Researching Mao Zedong’s cultural hegemony thought deeply and refining it’s important contents and thoughts which is helpful to deal with the relationship between the nation cultural and foreign cultural, the traditional culture and modern culture, the elite culture and popular culture.