A Critical Study Of Historical Nihilism From The Perspective Of Historical Materialism

In the new era,with the continuous improvement of China's comprehensive national strength and the deepening of social transformation,great changes have taken place in all aspects of society.As a superstructure,the cultural field has also changed correspondingly,especially in ideology.As a wrong social trend of thought,historical nihilism also emerges in a certain background,with bad influence.In view of this,it is necessary to clarify the true face of historical nihilism in theory,so as to make a correct distinction in practice and take the correct theory as the guide of action.Historical materialism is a correct historical concept proved by practice.The critical study of historical nihilism needs theoretical examination under the guidance of Marxist historical materialism.First of all,this study focuses on clarifying what historical nihilism is,that is,studying the emergence and performance of historical nihilism;characteristics and hazards.Historical nihilism is under the joint action of western capitalism's deliberate attack and the realistic foundation of the reverse development of market economy under the reform and opening up,the philosophical foundation of idealistic historical view and the generating foundation of the subjective meaning of historical narration.In contemporary China,it is characterized by manifesting "farewell to revolution",denying the revolutionary history of the Communist Party of China,spreading the theory of "historical contingency",denying the inevitability of the ruling of the Communist Party of China,blackening and distorting the leaders and heroes appearing in the revolution and construction,and advocating "value neutrality",usurping the compilation of "overturned articles" and overall westernization,which seriously shakes the people's attitude towards horses The belief of Marxism disturbs the mainstream ideology of our society,distorts the correct value orientation of the people,and endangers the stability of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and the state power.On the basis of sorting out the problems of historical nihilism,this study further explores the erroneous expression of this trend of thought in the cognitive social history,which mainly includes: first,denying the basic law of social and historical evolution,advocating the historical contingency on the basis of the idealistic interpretation of the historical road,and then denying the historical inevitability of the Chinese revolutionary road;second,denying the group The view of public history advocates the view of heroic history,negates the historical role of the people,even regards the people as the factors hindering the development of history,exaggerates the power of individual figures;thirdly,negates the theory of basic social contradictions,and then negates the decisive role of productivity and economic foundation,the guiding position of Marxism in the field of ideology,revolution,and then elimination Get rid of the mainstream ideology.The purpose of studying what historical nihilism is and its wrong expression in cognitive social history is to accurately understand history.After identifying the political intention and serious harm of this wrong trend of thought,it has aroused widespread concern and been firmly resisted.In this regard,we need to adhere to the guidance of Marxist historical materialism,adhere to the guidingposition of Marxism in the field of ideology,and build a socialist core value system to carry out theoretical and practical liquidation and resistance of historical nihilism,so as to maintain the true face of history and promote the social and historical process to move forward.