The May 4th Movement was a student movement that was born in Beijing on May 4th 19 19. It was a patriotic movement in various forms, including demonstrations, petitions, strikes, violent confrontation with the government, etc. The participants included the broad masses, citizens, businessmen and other middle and lower classes.
Historical characteristics of the May 4th Movement:
1 and the May 4th Movement showed the thoroughness of anti-imperialism and feudalism.
2. The May 4th Movement is a real mass movement. If one of the fundamental weaknesses of the Revolution of 1911 was that the masses were not widely mobilized and organized, then the May 4th Movement itself was a mass revolutionary movement.
3. The May 4th Movement promoted the development and spread of Marxism in China and its combination with the workers' movement in China.
It is a resolute anti-imperialist and anti-feudal people's movement initiated by students and expanded by workers.
5. The May 4th Patriotic Movement was a patriotic movement that thoroughly opposed imperialism and feudalism, and it was the beginning of China's new democracy.
The May 4th Movement was different from the Revolution of 1911.
1, anti-imperialism and feudalism are more thorough than the Revolution of 1911.
2. It has a broader mass base than the Revolution of 1911.
The proletariat played an important role and began to enter the political arena.
The May 4th Movement belongs to the new democratic revolution.
The outbreak of the May 4th Movement:
1, international and domestic background:
International background:
(1) During World War I, Japan stepped up its aggression against China, which aroused the indignation of the people all over the country and the anti-imperialist sentiment was high.
(2) The victory of the October Revolution in Russia pointed out the road to liberation;
Domestic background:
(1) Social foundation: dark rule of Beiyang warlords, class contradictions constantly intensified;
(2) Class foundation: private capital is further developed and the working class is growing;
(3) Ideological basis: The New Culture Movement liberated people's minds; Direct cause: Paris Peace Conference? The failure of China's diplomacy
2. After that:
3. Nature:
The May 4th Movement was the first thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary movement in China's modern history.
The foundation of anti-imperialism:
(1) Judging from the causes of the struggle, the movement was ignited by the Shandong issue, which originated from the Paris Peace Conference where the spoils were distributed and redistributed.
(2) From the slogan of struggle:? Fighting for state power abroad? Do not admit that there is still a solution to the Shandong problem.
Anti-feudal basis:
(1) From the goal of struggle: Cao, Lu and Zhang were initially dismissed, and after the workers participated, they further pointed to Duan.
(2) From the slogan of struggle:? Punish the traitor inside? . Thorough foundation: refers to the spirit of struggle against imperialism and feudal warlords.
4. Importance:
First, the May 4th Movement was a great patriotic mass movement. The object of its struggle was against imperialism and the northern warlords government, and its thoroughness of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism was unprecedented in the May 4th Movement. It fully mobilized the masses, industry and commerce to unite, and some farmers participated, which actually opened the prelude to the complete anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle of the whole nation.
Second, the May 4th Movement was a profound ideological emancipation movement. Make the people of China more aware of the nature of imperialist aggression and the darkness of warlord rule, and at the same time further improve the determination and consciousness of the people of China against imperialism and feudalism; It has promoted the national people's reflection and exploration of China's reform, and also promoted the vigorous rise of new ideological trends and the spread of Marxism.
Third, the May 4th Movement not only opened the prelude to the new-democratic revolution, but also started the new-democratic revolution in China. Since then, the proletariat has stepped onto the political stage, and the people's power has been widely mobilized, which not only makes the May 4th Movement itself have the basic connotation of the new-democratic revolution, but also directly creates class, ideological and cadre conditions for the establishment of the China * * production party.