Research On Mao Zedong’s Political Values

Mao Zedong’s political values are Marxism’s view of value, which are an important partof Mao Zedong thought, based on scientific generalization of social development law. MaoZedong’s political values consider people as the subject and evaluation subject. According tothe need of Chinese revolution and the socialist construction, with adopting Marxism’s viewof value, assimilating the reasonable part of Chinese traditional culture, Mao Zedong’spolitical values develop gradually. As the core of the first generation of the ChineseCommunist Party, in the hard exploration of revolution and the socialist construction, MaoZedong found a value system with original research, which is the first stage of sinicization ofMarxism values. His political values are applied in all fields, which are the base of ChineseCommunists’ values development and values innovation, and with great inspire significanceto the socialist core values construction in the new historical period.This paper represents the theoretical base of Mao Zedong’s political values, the originsof his political values—Chinese traditional values, as well as some values from foreigncountries, and the relation between Mao Zedong’s political values formation and his growthexperience. Mao Zedong’s political values contain the people values, the class values, theParty values, the democracy and the legal system values and the ideal values. Mao Zedongviews the people as a group of historical and specific ones. He uses the historical developmentprinciple and the most principle to measure and confirm the division of the people, anddefinitely hold the view that the people is the subject of his values. The benefit of the peopleis the highest standard of value evaluation. He explains the ways to realize the people’sinterests in many aspects. Mao Zedong approves the positive function of class and classstruggle in social historical development. With this, he calls for Chinese people to fight forsocialism and communism. Mao Zedong applies economic position and attitudes towardsrevolution as standards of class values, to observe the trends and motions of all classes to findthe real force for Chinese revolution. Along with the in-depth development of class struggle,Mao Zedong amplified the principles of class values a lot. Mao Zedong’s Party values reflecthis keen awareness of the nature and the mission of the Chinese Communist Party. MaoZedong points the Chinese Communist Party as the Vanguard of the Chinese proletariat, andthe purpose of the Chinese Communist Party is to serve the Chinese people wholeheartedly,to fight for socialism and communism ideal. With these, he stresses the value of Partyconstruction and discusses its value realization. As the innovator of the socialist democracyand the legal system construction, Mao Zedong puts forward the socialist democracy and the legal system values with Chinses characteristics on the basis of Marxism democracy and thelegal system values. He elaborates essence of democracy and the legal system values, as wellas the value principles and the mode of value realization during its construction. MaoZedong’s democracy and the legal system values lay a solid foundation for the socialistdemocratic politics construction. Mao Zedong considers communism as his highest ideal,during Chinese revolution and construction, for people’s obtaining of the free comprehensivedevelopment, he makes great efforts to explore the development model which suits to China.In fact, Mao Zedong has earned great production in his research, as well as some experienceand lessons.During the times of poverty and social deprivations, Mao Zedong’s political values guideand inspire the Communist Party and Chinese people to the victory of revolution and thesocialist construction. As the theme of the present times changes, it does not represent thatMao Zedong’s political values has become outdated. Mao Zedong’s political values are thevalues based on the Marxism values, which is not unchanged dogmas, and it is open-endedand developing with times.Mao Zedong’s political values are the values of self-improvement and hard-work. Itsresearching and propaganda is the main task of the socialist spiritual civilization construction.It helps strengthening the development of the Party’s ideological style, enhancing the abilitiesof guarding against degeneration, and safeguarding the Party’s solidarity and consolidating itsunity. Mao Zedong’s political values and the socialist core values are both the socialistideology guided by Marxism with homology. Their essential features are same to Marxismpolitical values. Mao Zedong’s political values are embodied in the socialist core values,increase its charm, and serve as a connecting link in the socialist core values construction.Mao Zedong’s political values construction not only establishes a theoretical and practicalfoundation and guide for the socialist core values construction, but also provides significantreference value for it. Mao Zedong’s political values are the ideological force promoting thefull developments of the people and the overall progress of society.