Red Flag Weekly And Propagation Of Marxism

The Red Flag Weekly(1931.3.9-1934.3.1)was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China during the Agrarian Revolution.It played an irreplaceable role in the spread of Marxism in China.Nowadays,the research on the relationship between the press and Marxism and the relationship between Marxism and popularization are very fruitful.But the research mainly focus on the time before or after the founding of the party and after new China,in the period of Agrarian Revolutionary War Is relatively small.There have been some researches on the Red Flag Weekly,but it is very rare to study Red Flag Weekly from the perspective of Marxist.Therefore,it is necessary to analyze how Red Flag Weekly propagates Marxism.From the analysis of the establishment and general situation of Red Flag Weekly,this paper focuses on the content,way and effect of spreading Marxism in Red Flag Weekly,investigating the unique development process of Red Flag Weekly in the course of Marxism spreading,summing up its rich and valuable historical experience.The Red Flag Weekly was born in the complex international and domestic situation,it inherited the fine tradition of Red Flag Daily and undertook the important historical mission of pushing forward the revolution forward.Red Flag Weekly gathered a group of writers,led by Zhang Wentian,who have Marxist knowledge background,they struggle perennially in the course of China's revolutionary cause and accumulated rich experience in revolutionary struggle.This provides favorable conditions for the development of Marxist spreading and talent pool.The Marxist theory spread by Red Flag Weekly is very rich,including the theory of proletarian violent revolution,the Marxist theory of mass history,the theory of socialist construction,the theory of national colonial issues and the theory of the proletarian party.Red Flag Weekly spread Marxist content is not just the theory itself,but with China's revolutionary practice combined with the theory to guide practice,embodies the theory in practice.The Red Flag Weekly spread Marxism in a variety of ways,such as opening up "vigorous Chinese Soviet Movement","Soviet Area Communication" and othercolumns for centralized spread,struggling with the Third Party,the Chinese Trotskyite,the Second International and other non-Marxist factions for critical spread,translating and referencing "Pravda","Comintern" and other foreign publications for interactive spread.The Red Flag Weekly spreading Marxism is effective: to expand the influence of the CPC Central Committee and the Soviet government;to improve the level of the masses' thought and practice;to support of the revolutionary struggle strongly.However,due to the influence of the "leftist" thought in the party,the Red Flag weekly also had the limitations of the times inevitably on the understanding of the revolutionary situation and the revolutionary power.The Red Flag Weekly spreading Marxism has accumulated valuable historical experience: grasp the revolutionary development trend,serving the needs of social change;focus on the application of basic theory and practical experience of the summary;focus on the exposition of theory and popularization and vividness of language use;pay attention to the work of distribution and the role of party newspapers in the spread of Marxism.