The General Outline of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China proposes to adhere to the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism and organically and uniformly pursue socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Marx defended philosophical materialism, enriched philosophy with the achievements of German classical philosophy, especially dialectics, extended the materialist understanding of nature to the understanding of human society, founded historical materialism, and pointed out the The way out for the oppressed classes from spiritual slavery provides the working class with important cognitive tools.

Marxism is the doctrine for the complete liberation of the proletariat of the world and all mankind. Marx and Engels created a scientific system of proletarian thought in the 1840s on the basis of critically inheriting and absorbing mankind's outstanding achievements in natural science, thinking, and social science, and have continuously enriched, developed and improved it in practice.

The basic principles of Marxism-Leninism are abstract, but they are not speculative principles, but are based on facts, with laws as content, and practice as standards. They are both empirical and highly theoretical. .

Marxist classic sayings: Artistic talent is unique, and the source of artistic talent is the masses. However, artistic talent is suffocated among the masses. This is all the result of the division of labor; dialectics does not worship anything, from its essence Strictly speaking, it is a critical and revolutionary thing; regardless of the use value or exchange value of a commodity, it does not depend on the amount of labor paid to obtain it.

Different angles of Marxism

From different angles, we can give different answers to what Marxism is. Judging from the cognitive achievements of its creators and successors, Marxism is a system of views and doctrines founded by Marx and Engels, and has been continuously enriched and developed by Marxists of all ages and nationalities since then.

In terms of its class attributes, Marxism is a scientific theory for the proletariat to strive for its own liberation and the liberation of all mankind. It is a theory about the nature, purpose and conditions of liberation of the proletariat's struggle. In terms of its research objects and main content, Marxism is the scientific worldview and methodology of the proletariat, and it is a doctrine about the universal laws of nature, society and the development of thinking.