Research On Pan Zinian's Dissemination Of Marxism In The First Half Of The 20^th Century

Pan Zinian(1893-1972)was a famous Marxist theorist and revolutionary in the history of the Chinese revolution.The paper discussed the background and the content which Pan Zinian disseminated Marxism in the first half of the 20 th century by using the methods of literature research and interdisciplinary research.The paper further analyzed the characteristics,meanings and limitations of Pan Zinian's dissemination of Marxism.There were objective background and subjective conditions which Pan Zinian established the belief of Marxism and disseminated Marxism.From the objective point of view,advanced Chinese experienced a number of failures during the course of exploring the road to national development.The October revolution showed the power of Marxism when advanced Chinese were depressed and hesitated about which way to go.Advanced Chinese realized the vitality of Marxism.They realized that only Marxism could solve the historical issues on striving for national independence,people's liberation and achieving national prosperity and people's affluence in modern China.Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu became Marxists.They insisted on the promotion of Marxism in the masses,put Marxism with the practice of labor movements together and founded the Communist Party of China.The founding of the Communist Party of China opened up a new situation in the Chinese revolution.All these constituted the foundation for Pan Zinian to establish Marx's belief and to devote to the spread of Marx's doctrine.From the subjective perspective,Pan Zinian had strong patriotic feelings as a young man.During the study at Peking University,he was deeply edified and influenced by Marxism.He was inspired by the flood of great revolution and devoted himself to the revolution.He realized that only the Communist Party was the real revolutionary party and only the Communist Party could complete the historical mission of saving the nation and saving the people after Chiang Kai Shek launched counterrevolutionary coup on April 12 th in 1927.Hence,Pan Zinian resolutely joined the Communist Party of China,and really established the Marxism belief.It constituted indispensable subjective conditions for Pan Zinian to spread Marxism.Pan Zinian actively spread Marxism in two aspects of theory and practice.in theoretical dimension,Pan Zinian mainly disseminated Marxist philosophy and Lenin's basic theory on revolution.In practice,Pan Zinian spread Marxism by engaging himself in the concrete practice of Chinese revolution.He constructed the party's grass-roots organizations and fostered the avant-garde force to spread Marxism.He set up "Xinhua Daily" and other media forms.He publicized the CPC's theoretical viewpoints on Anti-Japanese War under the guidance of Marxism,which effectively eliminated the KMT government's smear and discredit to the Communist Party and made the wider public in the ruling area of the Kuomintang realize only the Chinese Communist Party could lead the Anti-Japanese War to the final victory.Based on the detailed content of Pan Zinian's dissemination of Marxism,the paper summed up two characteristics.One was the combination of theoretical guidance and revolutionary practice,and the other was to use newspapers and magazines as the main media form.It summed up the significance,which were to defend the position of Marxism thought,.to promote the public to recognize the future of the Chinese revolution,to push forward the development of Journalism under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and to train a group of talents who had firm belief in Marxism and were needed by the Chinese revolution.It also pointed out the limitations of Pan Zinian's dissemination of Marxism,which were relatively a single approach of transmission and to serve intellectuals as its main target group.However,it promoted the development of the Chinese revolutionary cause.