Standpoint,Viewpoint And Method:The Three Transcendence Of Mao Zedong's Mass View On Traditional People-Oriented Thought

In the new era,the Communists have never forgotten their original intention and insisted on "people-centered".Our Party is facing the ruling risk and test.We need to maintain purity and advancement,so as to strengthen the construction of ruling capacity.Mao Zedong's mass outlook is one of the contents of Marxist mass outlook.Its basic core and essence still have reference significance in the present age.As the theoretical source of Mao Zedong's mass outlook,Traditional People-oriented Thought is an integral part of Chinese traditional culture,which needs to be critically inherited to realize its modernization transformation.Comparing Mao Zedong's mass view and Traditional People-oriented thought,grasping their essence and elaborating from different perspectives the transcendence of the two,which can provide theoretical and practical experience for the implementation of the mass line in the new era."People for the country","emperor for the people" and "government for the people" are core ideas of traditional people-oriented thought.It advocates that the people are the main component of the country,that the monarch is born from heaven,and that the will of heaven is embodied in public opinion.Therefore,the traditional people-oriented thought guides the monarch to carry out the policy of supporting the people.Mao Zedong grew up and was educated in a strong traditional cultural environment.In this cultural soil,he formed a mass outlook.He always attached great importance to uniting and mobilizing the masses,serving the masses and establishing a country truly belonging to the masses.Traditional people-oriented thought originated in feudal society,and it developed continuously from the perspective of monarchy and practical interests.It was essentially different from Mao Zedong's mass view in standpoint,viewpoint and method.From the standpoint,Mao Zedong's mass outlook is based on the theory of materialism,adheres to the political standpoint that the people themselves liberate themselves,and ultimately devotes themselves torealizing the value standpoint of communism.The Traditional People-oriented Thought is mostly based on idealism.The people are always in the "common people status" and the realization of the Great Harmony society with different ranks is their goal ideal.From the viewpoint,Mao Zedong regards the people as the motive force to create history,while the traditional people-oriented thought regards heaven as the motive force for the existence and development of society.Mao Zedong regards the people as the subject of social history,the subject of understanding and reforming society and the subject of enjoying state rights.In the traditional people-oriented thought,the monarch is the main body of the state.Mao Zedong will serve the people as the goal of all the work of the Party and the state.The traditional people-oriented policy of enriching the people and enriching the people is only the way for the monarch to consolidate his rule.Mao Zedong devoted himself to improving the people's cultural level and comprehensive accomplishment through education and achieving free development,which is different from the Traditional People-oriented thought of fooling the people.In terms of methods,Mao Zedong followed the mass line through class analysis,field investigation and research.The Traditional People-oriented thought simplifies the class,taking the official-oriented and knowing the end of the line as the method.An in-depth analysis of Mao Zedong's mass view and traditional people-oriented thought is conducive to grasping the essence of both,so as to better carry forward the Traditional People-oriented Thought and Mao Zedong's mass view,and provide theoretical support for realizing the combination of Marxism and traditional culture in the new era.Inheritance of Mao Zedong's mass outlook is conducive to our Party not forgetting its original intention,maintaining the essence of serving the people,building people's livelihood,speeding up the pace of China's progress on the socialist road,and achieving national prosperity,national rejuvenation and people's happiness.