Research On Mao Zedong's Cultural View

Mao Zedong is a great proletarian revolutionist and a pioneer who pushed forward the sinicization of Marxism.In the process of leading the revolution and construction,Mao Zedong not only paid great attention to the development of politics and economy,but also paid great attention to the work of cultural inquiry and cultural construction.Based on the actual national conditions and the process of social practice,Mao Zedong used Marxist theory to guide the development of culture,absorbing China's outstanding traditional culture and Western advanced culture,and forming a period culture in the course of continuous reflection and analysis.In terms of the development of social practice and the historical evolution,Mao Zedong's culture view is mainly divided into the initial generation of the school period,the maturity of the new democratic period and the exploration after the founding of the People's Republic of China.the The content of Mao Zedong's culture view is extremely abundant.First of all,Mao Zedong establishes a new definition of culture,and argues that a certain culture is a reflection of politics and economy,and that it is counterproductive to a certain degree of politics and economy.It shows that culture changes and develops with the development of the politics and economy.The culture also serves a certain politics and economy and promotes the political and economic development.What's more,Mao Zedong's cultural view is based on the practical reality of revolutionary practice and social development,and puts forward different cultural views for different social realities at different times.In the period of New Democracy,Mao Zedong expounded the correct views on how to treat Chinese traditional culture and western culture;he established a new culture during the time that was builded under the proletarian leadership,belonged to the nation,the science and the public,and opposed imperialism and feudalism;he correctly handled the spread and promotion of the cultural development guildline.During the period of socialism,Mao Zedong established the cultural development guideline of “letting all flowers bloom and hundreds of schools of thought contend”,“Making the past serve the present and foreign things serve China”;he established the cultural development direction of“serving the people and serving socialism”;and he also made some important cultural and educational measures.Mao Zedong's cultural view is distinctively characterized bythe rich content,but it also has its historical limitations with some improper opinions and measures.However,some opinions and measures of Mao Zedong on cultural construction still deserve our inheritance and development because they are valuable resources used for our building a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.With the development of economic globalization and network informations well as China's reform and opening up,various cultures have stirred up each other and blended with each other,showing a trend of diversification.Culture has become an increasingly important factor in the overall national strength competition.Today's era is an era of ever-increasing competition for national soft power.Internationally,the competition of either the expansion and the anti-expansion or the infiltration and the anti-infiltration of the cultural field has become one of the focuses of international political and economic competition.The fight over cultural resources and discourse rights has become an important part of global resource allocation.Faced with the fierce competition among various cultures,our country should strengthen its own cultural construction and enhance its cultural soft power.It is necessary to firm cultural confidence,boost cultural awareness,highlight our party's starkly cultural stand and uphold and develop social socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.As a precious cultural resource,Mao Zedong's cultural view needs to be researched,inherited and developed,which is suitable for the development of contemporary Chinese culture and is used to guide the cultural construction of China today.It is inheriting the traditional culture and dialectically absorbing Western culture,that can maintain the vitality of cultural development,in order to better build a socialist strong culture nation.