The Details Of The Sinicizing Marxism In The Confucian Culture

Confucian culture was called Confucianism for short, referring to the thought of Confucian school. Confucian culture had influenced Chinese national consciousness deeply and longly, which occupied a leading position in the Chinese traditional culture and represented national psychology of Chinese people. With Marxism spreading in China, it would necessarily need the help of the Chinese local culture to develop. Thus, known for the soil of Chinese culture, Confucian culture became the main thought for Marxism to attach in the transmission in China. As a result, it had a certain practical significance to study Confucian culture under the background of contemporary China.Though, Marxism was born in capitalist society of Western Europe in 1940 s, it includes three parts: Marxist philosophy, Marxist political economy and scientific socialism.Marx and Engels inherited and absorbed outstanding achievements of the human of natural science, thinking science and social science theory system in critically.It had many same view points compared with Confucian culture, so it could be said that Confucian culture provided the cultural soil for the introduction of Marxism. When Marxism began spread comprehensively in China, its ideological spirit gradually integrated into the contemporary Chinese national spirit and modernization construction theory, this process was called Sinicization of Marxism. The Sinicizatiom of Marxism had became an important guiding ideology of our country by enriching its connotation after several generations of national leaders.Confucian culture had developed and changed more than two thousand years, and it came into several branches and schools as its compatibility and development. It was not only integrated with various schools of thought, but also kept in contact with the complex social situation in each period, then it formed a huge theoretical system in the continuous improvement and included the content of society, philosophy and ethical aspects, etc.. In the aspect of social thought, the highest idea of Marxism had many similarities with the ‘Da Tong’ society of Confucian culture; Furthermore, the ‘Xiao Kang’ society of Confucian culture just looks like the moderately prosperous society. In ethics, the classical thought in Confucianism such as righteousness, propriety, wisdom, etc. had important influence on the morality of the whole society. It not only affected the atmosphere of a country, but also enriched personal spiritual cultivation, so it was the inevitable requirement of contemporary society to comprehensively enrich the core value of socialism. From the concept of the ecology, the theory that man was an integral part of nature advocated people to follow the laws of nature since ancient times. People should be harmony with nature and live better based on the mild transformation and development of nature. This kind of perspective had the same effect with the proposed concept of sustainable development, and it was a source of the ideas. Confucian culture had many advantages such as rich connotation, adaptability and development, deeply influencing the thinking and all aspects of social lives of Chinese people. In the continuous construction of today’s society, by the analysis of Confucianism development, it could better promote the extension and development of Chinese characteristics in the society.