The failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the Boxer Movement proved that the revolution led by the peasant class could not save China, the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 proved that the reform movement that did not touch the foundation of feudal rule could not succeed, and the failure of the Revolution of 1911 proved that the bourgeois-democratic revolution could not work in China. This prompted China's advanced elements to explore a better way to save the country.
The victory of the October Revolution in Russia inspires us that countries with backward economy and culture can also use socialist ideas to guide themselves to the road of liberation. The extensive mobilization and victory of Russian workers, peasants and soldiers gave China's advanced elements a new revolutionary method, prompting them to study the theories followed by this revolution.
The working class in China began to enter the historical stage as an independent political force, which is consistent with the class attribute of Russian leaders, which makes Marxism easier to understand and accept. Moreover, socialist Russia, born in the October Revolution, called for opposing imperialism and treating China with a new equal attitude, which effectively promoted the spread of socialist ideas in China. It is natural to choose Marxism.
Second, how did the advanced elements in China choose Marxism?
The rise of the new culture movement triggered the trend of ideological emancipation, put forward democracy and science, and laid the ideological foundation for the spread of Marxism; The continuous growth of new social forces, mainly the working class, has United farmers, students and other people from all walks of life, laying a class foundation for the spread of Marxism; With the help of * * * Production International and its own efforts, the early organizations of China * * * Production Party were established one after another, which laid the organizational foundation for the spread of Marxism. This makes the spread of Marxism have a fertile soil.
Li Dazhao played a major role in China's early Marxist ideological movement. He published.
A Comparative View of the French-Russian Revolution, The Victory of the Common People and My View of Marxism gave a comprehensive and systematic introduction to Marxism. Xiao Chunv has taught in Xiangyang No.2 Normal School twice. She preached Marxism-Leninism to students in class and told them the Manifesto of the Producers' Party. She also often takes advantage of various opportunities to organize and lead young people to carry out various revolutionary activities inside and outside the school. Zhang Bojian systematically studied Marxist theory, and worked hard to study Marxist theory in the arduous revolutionary struggle, translating and introducing Marxist theory. He compiled a brief history of social evolution.
* * * Members of the early organizations of the production party began to focus on the original works of Marx and Engels to study Marxism and Lenin's works; Some organizations also actively carry out the translation and introduction of Marxist works; Advanced Marxists struggle against the anti-Marxist trend of thought, and even go to the workers to publicize and organize. This undoubtedly expanded the ideological position of Marxism.
The historical process of China's revolution, construction and development determines the logical process of Marxist philosophy in China. The logical process of China Marxist philosophy reflects and promotes the historical process of China's revolution and construction. In the revolution and construction of China, China's Marxism-Mao Zedong Thought was born. To some extent, this marks the establishment and development of Marxist thought in China.