1938, Mao Zedong put forward the proposition of "Marxism in China" for the first time in the political report entitled "On the New Stage" made at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
He pointed out: "There is no abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism. The so-called concrete Marxism is the national form of Marxism, that is, it is applied to the specific struggle in the specific environment of China, not in the abstract.
As a part of the great Chinese nation, party member, who is closely related to this nation by flesh and blood, talks about Marxism without the characteristics of China, which is just abstract and empty Marxism.
Therefore, the sinicization of Marxism makes it have China characteristics in every performance, that is to say, it has become an urgent problem for the whole party to apply Marxism according to the characteristics of China. "
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Marxism, as a scientific truth, has universal guiding significance, but it is an extremely arduous task to apply these universal truths to the concrete reality of China. China * * * party member faces special national conditions. In old China, a semi-colonial and semi-feudal eastern country, not only the revolutionary conditions were very different from those of western capitalist countries, but also the social and historical development path of China could not be the same.
Similarly, the new China is different from other socialist countries in how to carry out socialist construction and reform. If we really want to use Marxism to guide China's revolution, construction and reform, we must realize Marxism in China.
The practice of China's revolution, construction and reform also proves that Marxism can play a guiding role in China, not only because it is scientific, but also because China's social conditions need it, because it is linked with the practice of China's people's revolution, construction and reform, and because it is mastered by China people.
Realizing the China of Marxism is also the inherent requirement of Marxist theory. Engels clearly pointed out: "Marx's whole world outlook is not a theory, but a method.
What it provides is not a ready-made dogma, but the starting point of further research and the method of this research. The task of Marxists in different countries is to further concretize Marxism by combining the concrete reality of different countries in different periods; At the same time, Marxism can only open up its own development path in the process of combining with the concrete reality of various countries.
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