The points of convergence between Marxist thought and traditional Chinese culture

The points of convergence between Marxist thought and traditional Chinese culture are as follows:

1. There is a convergence between the ideals of ****anism espoused by Marxism and the ideal of a commonwealth society espoused by Confucianism.

2. There is also a fit between Marxism and traditional Chinese culture in their emphasis on the power of the people. Marxism believes that the people are the driving force behind the development of history, and Confucianism advocates "the people are precious and the ruler is light" and "the people are the foundation of the ruler".

3. Both Marxism and traditional Chinese culture emphasize practice. Marx called the new philosophy he established "practical materialism", emphasizing the essential status and prerequisite significance of practice. Traditional Chinese culture places special emphasis on "practice". Marxism emphasizes the connection between theory and practice, while traditional Chinese culture pursues the unity of knowledge and action, seeks to be practical and realistic, and is concerned with the use of the world.

4. Marx's dialectic is a critical inheritance of Hegel. Hegel absorbed Laozi's dialectical thinking, and Laozi's dialectical thinking is similar to that of Hegel and Marx.

5. The ideas of class struggle emphasized by Marxism and those advocated by peasant uprisings in Chinese history also have similarities.

Although Marxism comes from the West, as a universal truth, it is the crystallization of the entire human civilization and a worldwide theory, and it is compatible with the progressive ideas of traditional Chinese culture in many important aspects. This fit is the cultural basis on which the Chinese intellectuals and the general public have been able to accept Marxism relatively smoothly and make it the guiding ideology of the Chinese ****anufacturing party.

Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology on which we founded the party and the country, and on which we have prospered. Practice tells us that why the Chinese ****anufacturing party can, why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good, in the final analysis is Marxism line, is the Chineseization of the modernization of Marxism line. Have the scientific theory of Marxism guidance is our party firmly faith belief, grasp the historical initiative is fundamental.

Theoretical sources

Marxism is a product of the excellent cultural heritage of mankind. It is mainly a new scientific system of proletarian thought created by critically inheriting German classical philosophy, British classical political economy and British and French idealistic socialism.

Marx and Engels used to accept Hegel's idealist philosophy before 1841, and turned to L.A. Feuerbach's materialism from the second half of 1841. They founded the philosophy of dialectical materialism by drawing on the rational kernel of dialectics in the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel and rejecting its idealism, and by drawing on the materialism in the philosophy of L.A. Feuerbach and rejecting his idealistic views on metaphysical and social-historical issues.