Study About Socialist Ideological Current Of Liberal Intellectuals In Postwar China (1945-1949)

During the middle and later periods of the 40s in the 20th century, the general cognition of "socialism" for Chinese liberal intellectuals is:socialism is a kind of theory and ideality which solve social unfairness problems by means of nationalization and planned economy under guidance of value goals of fairness and equality. Based on this cognition, and influenced by international and national objective situations, an ideological current of discussing or pursuing socialism was stirred up among China's liberal intellectuals. Liberal intellectuals carried out discussion about economic characteristics of socialism and relationship between socialism and political democracy, leading force and realization means of socialism, etc. While for the important socialism school-Marxism, superficially, there was no lack of criticism and query, but it's not difficult to find a undercurrent about acceptance and utility of Marxism by meticulously analyzing their opinions. Influenced by international and national objective situations, at the end of 1948, the socialist ideological current gradually stepped towards divergence and most liberal intellectuals chose to acknowledge socialist road led by the Communist Party of China. In general, the socialist ideological current among liberal intellectuals in the middle and later periods of the 40s was only a secondary current which was generated by the "middle course"current. But compared with previous socialist ideological current among liberal intellectuals, it had certain discussing breadth and depth. In terms of the main pursuits and the social connection of its discourse subject, this socialist ideological current's mainstream nature should be the left-wing social reformism. In China during the middle and later periods of the 40s, the socialist ideological current could be beneficial for expanding force of democratic alignment to a certain degree, but on special period, it generated objective historical negative effect. And the divergence of this ideological current was good for liberal intellectuals to return to reality and rationality and finally choose scientific socialism. Surveying the ups and downs of this socialist ideological current is meaningful for sticking to "three confidences" of socialism with Chinese characteristics and leading the thought currents by socialism with Chinese characteristics.