Research On Mao Zedong’s Mass Line Thought During The Period Of Total Anti-Japanese War

The idea of Mao Zedong’s mass line during the period of total resistance against Japanese aggression by the whole nation is an important ideological source of the Party’s mass line.The reason why the Chinese Communist Party was able to become strong from little,establish and develop the anti-Japanese national united front,win the support of the masses,and achieve the first historic leap in the Sinicization of Marxism during the period of the total resistance against Japanese aggression is that the Party always insisted on uniting the masses,gathering people’s hearts,and always representing the interests of the masses of the anti-Japanese people.How to continue to follow the mass line,maintain the flesh and blood connection between the Party and the masses,consolidate and develop the broadest patriotic united front,and unite and strive for the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the new era is worth our in-depth exploration.This paper takes Mao Zedong’s thought of mass line during the period of total resistance against Japanese aggression as the object of study,organizes the development process of Mao Zedong’s thought of mass line through Mao Zedong’s speeches and articles,and explores the practical implications of Mao Zedong’s thought of mass line.This paper adopts the research methods of historical analysis,textual analysis,and a combined method of theory and practice.In addition to the introduction,this paper consists of six parts,which elaborate and explore the theoretical origin,historical background,development process,practical path,practical effectiveness,and practical implications of Mao Zedong’s thought of mass line during the period of total resistance against Japanese aggression.Based on the existing research,innovative research results are formed.The first part elaborates on the theoretical sources of Mao Zedong’s thinking on the mass line during the period of total resistance against Japanese aggression.The theoretical sources include the Marxist view of the history of the masses,the Marxist epistemology,and the unity of opposites in the materialistic dialectic.These basic Marxist theories provide the scientific standpoint,viewpoint,and methodological support for Mao Zedong’s thinking on the mass line during the total resistance against Japanese aggression.The people-oriented thinking in traditional Chinese culture and Mao Zedong’s early experience also had a profound influence on the establishment of Mao’s mass view of history.Guided by the Marxist view of the history of the masses,Mao Zedong critically inherited the people-oriented thought in traditional Chinese culture and realized the Sinicization of the Marxist view of the masses by combining it with the specific reality of Chinese society at that time.The second part examines the historical background of the formation of Mao Zedong’s idea of the mass line during such a period.Mao Zedong’s idea of the mass line during the total resistance against Japanese aggression was developed based on the mass line practiced during the early years of the Party and the Agrarian Revolutionary War.As a result of the Japanese imperialist invasion of China and the non-resistance policy of the Kuomintang authorities,ethnic conflicts gradually replaced class conflicts as the main conflicts in Chinese society,and all classes in Chinese society became increasingly oppressed by Japanese imperialism and began to actively seek resistance to Japan.After the outbreak of the total resistance against Japanese aggression,although the two parties shared the same general goal of resistance against Japan,the two guidelines of resistance against Japanese aggression implied two separate futures due to their different class standpoints.The Communist Party of China was also faced with a new historical mission in Yan’an,and the change in the ruling environment and objectives emerged as a new challenge in this period.The third part organizes the development of Mao’s thinking on the mass line during the total resistance against Japanese aggression.Mao Zedong’s idea of the mass line was constantly enriched during the war that was tailored to the situation and tasks at different stages of the war.The connotation of the "masses" during the war has also been enriched.After the Red Army reached North Shaanxi at the end of the Long March,the Wajaobu Conference marked a change in the Party’s ideological strategy from the Agrarian Revolutionary War to the Anti-Japanese War.Two works,On Practice and On Contradiction,provided the philosophical basis for Mao’s thinking on the mass line during the total resistance against Japanese aggression.After the war began,Mao Zedong proposed the "general mobilization of the whole nation",calling for the mobilization of all forces for victory in the war.In response to the wrong propositions of doomsday theory" and "quick victory theory" that had emerged in China,Mao Zedong wrote On the Protracted War.The article put forward the view that "soldiers and people are the basis of victory" and emphasized the status and role of the people in the war.Thereafter,Mao Zedong continued to develop the connotation of the idea of the mass line during the war and put forward important generalizations such as the "Three Great Treasures",emphasizing the need to unite all anti-Japanese people,to take into account all anti-Japanese classes,and to make the masses of anti-Japanese people aware of themselves.At the Seventh Party Congress,Mao Zedong’s idea of the mass line was more completely explained.Mao Zedongs Thought was formally established as the guiding ideology of the Party,and the mass line,as one of the "living souls" of Mao Zedongs Thought,became the fundamental political line and working line of the Party,so that Mao Zedong’s thought of the mass line really came to maturity.The fourth part explores the practical path of Mao Zedong’s idea of the mass line during the total resistance against Japanese aggression.Mao Zedong’s idea of the mass line was widely applied to economic,political,cultural,and armed struggle in practice during the period.Economically,the policy of reasonable burden,rent reduction and interest reduction,the great production movement,and the streamlining of the army were implemented.Politically,the Party established democratic power in the anti-Japanese bases,implemented the "three-thirds" principle,and carried out the Rectification Movement.The convening of the Yan’an Literary and Art Symposium promoted the development of literature and art,and the progressive youth and literary workers were able to unite with the anti-Japanese masses.The army under the leadership of the Party relied on the masses to establish and consolidate anti-Japanese bases behind enemy lines,practiced independent guerrilla warfare in the mountains,and carried out armed resistance together with the masses in the bases.The fifth part explores the effectiveness of Mao’s idea of the mass line in practice during the total resistance against Japanese aggression.The policy of reducing rents and interest rates and the mass production movement reduced the economic burden of the anti-Japanese masses,developed agriculture and industry,and commerce in the anti-Japanese bases,and ensured the supply of the army while improving the material living standards of the anti-Japanese masses.The Senate system and the "three-thirds" principle united people from outside the Party and allowed the masses to have and exercise their democratic rights.The Rectification Movement,through the rectification of the academic,party,and literary styles,brought about a high degree of ideological unity in the Party and strengthened the belief of Party members and cadres in serving the people.The prosperity of anti-war culture profoundly changed the spiritual outlook of the people in the anti-Japanese base areas,enriching their cultural life and raising their cultural level and political consciousness.The opening and consolidation of the anti-Japanese base areas provided a solid rear for the guerrilla war,as well as manpower and material support,and the anti-Japanese soldiers and people eventually ushered in victory in the war.The practice of Mao Zedong’s ideology of the mass line also contributed to the ideological foundation for the Communist Party of China’s victory in the New Democratic Revolution.It facilitated the first historical leap in the Sinicization of Marxism.After the victory of the war,the Party continued to develop the ideology of the mass line and relied on the masses to achieve the victory of the New Democratic Revolution.This ideology also made an important contribution to the great turnaround of the Chinese nation from a decline to a revival since modern times.The sixth part explores the practical implications of Mao’s idea of the mass line during the total resistance against Japanese aggression.Unity and struggle are the way for the Chinese people to create greatness in history.The study of Mao Zedong’s ideology of the mass line provides valuable insights for the Party in the new era to hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the united struggle for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.First,we must adhere to the supremacy of the people;second,we must rely closely on the people to create the great work of history;third,we must lead the great social revolution with a great self-revolution.The Communist Party of China will continue to promote the new great project of party construction in the vivid practice of mass line in the new era and write a more splendid chapter of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.