Research On Lenin’s Anti-cultural Poverty Thought

As the founder of a socialist country,Lenin has always attached great importance to cultural issues in the practical activities of leading Russia to carry out revolution and construction.At the end of the 19 th century and the beginning of the 20 th century,Russia,which developed from the old culture of serfdom,faced the situation of economic decline,social turbulence and political instability,and the society presented a severe poverty situation.Lenin was deeply aware that "it is impossible to build a communist society in an illiterate country",and that cultural poverty is an important reason for the backwardness of society.Only through the governance of cultural poverty can the poverty situation in Russia be fundamentally lifted,and the elimination of cultural poverty is an important goal for Russia to seek survival and development.In the process of Lenin’s practice of establishing and leading Soviet Russia,he constantly explored and gradually formed a scientific thought on anticultural poverty.Anti-cultural poverty thought occupies a very important position in Lenin’s socialist thought and is an important part of Leninism.The emergence of Lenin’s anti cultural poverty thought not only has a complex historical background,but also has a scientific ideological and theoretical origin.Lenin’s anti cultural poverty thought is a theoretical and practical exploration that creatively applies Marxist theory to the practical issues of Russian social and cultural construction and development on the basis of inheriting Marx and Engels’ anti poverty theory,Marx and Engels’ cultural theory,and reasonably absorbing excellent traditional Russian cultural thoughts,especially Russian populist cultural traditions.Deeply grasping the theoretical origin of Lenin’s anti cultural poverty ideology is not only very important for studying Leninism,but also conducive to promoting the development and innovation of Marxism in the contemporary era.Lenin’s anti cultural poverty thought has undergone a long-term process of formation and development.According to the differences in the phenomenon of cultural poverty and the objects of cultural poverty governance in various periods,as well as the principle of combining history and logic,and integrating theory and practice,the formation and development of Lenin’s anti cultural poverty thought can be divided into three stages:Before the October Revolution,Lenin embarked on a path of exploration of the anti cultural poverty ideology.During this period,although Lenin had not yet formed a systematic and complete thought of anti cultural poverty,he had many creative insights into his criticism of the erroneous cultural thoughts of the liberal populists,his understanding and evaluation of local capitalist culture,Western European and North American capitalist culture,and his analysis of national and ethnic cultural issues.Lenin’s criticism and absorption of various cultural thoughts during this period can be seen as the exploration and germination of his anti cultural poverty thoughts.After the victory of the October Revolution,the nascent Soviet regime was faced with a dual and complex situation of near collapse of the domestic economy and foreign armed attacks.In order to defend and consolidate the nascent Soviet regime,Lenin deeply analyzed the current situation of cultural poverty at that time,and proposed to strengthen the moral education of communism among young people and vigorously develop science,technology,and education,A series of measures,such as deeply criticizing the radical cultural views of the proletarian cultural group,were taken to complete the governance of the cultural poverty in education,science and technology,and other aspects of Soviet Russia at that time.At this point,Lenin’s anti cultural poverty ideology gradually took shape.After the implementation of the new economic policy,Lenin further realized that cultural poverty is the biggest obstacle to socialist construction.The real manifestations of cultural poverty during this period were the proliferation of corruption in state organs,the ignorance of farmers,and the growth of the illusion of "proletarian culture".In his "political testament" in his later years,Lenin proposed to shift the focus of work to peaceful "cultural" organization work,to carry out a major cultural transformation,and to address the current situation of political and cultural poverty by thoroughly transforming state organs and enhancing farmers’ political awareness.During the implementation of these measures,Lenin’s anti cultural poverty ideology has entered a stage of deepening.The anti cultural poverty ideology formed by Lenin in his great practice of leading Russia in revolution and construction to some extent changed Russia’s cultural backwardness,promoted the economic and social recovery and cultural development of Soviet Russia,laid a good foundation for the smooth development of Soviet cultural construction,and provided valuable experience for the cultural construction of other socialist countries,It also provides important theoretical reference for contemporary China’s cultural power strategy.Lenin’s thinking on the Party’s leadership over ideological work,the idea of coordinated development of culture and politics and economy,the attitude towards cultural heritage,and the idea of cultural internationalization have a very important reference and guidance role for China to maintain national cultural security in the new era,promote the Chinese path to modernization of coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization,strengthen cultural self-confidence,and build a socialist cultural power.