Lu Xun And Liberalism

The part completed: Liberalism takes as its highest target the protection of every individual's happiness. It is a complete system of philosophy, politics, social thoughts and social practice, and is considered as the most reliable force that guarantees liberty, democracy and wealth. In the process of"Western learning spreading to the East"in modern China, liberty was highly emphasized on the level of learning Western technology, political systems and culture, and was expected to save the Chinese people. However, in the social practice, liberalism covered an unusually rough way, and its Chinese connotation was in rich in historical complication and changeability. On the way from enlightenment to national salvation in modern China, liberalism was completely excluded by collectivism in history."Helping each other when both are in humble circumstances is no match for forgetting each other in the world". Lun Xun embodied clearly liberalism with a Chinese characteristic: living collectively is no match for individual liberty. However, in the practical choices, on the way from the search for national salvation to modernization, Lu Xun experienced the slow conversion from individualism to the tendency towards individualism, then to collectivism. This is the association between Lu Xun and liberalism, and is rich in historic significance.In the new stage China enters a period of reform and opening to the world. The market economy develops vigorously. China gradually completes the change of planned economy system, which becomes most profound economical strength to promote the liberalism to reactivate in modern China. At the same time, the whole set of ideology of market economy also grows increasingly. The combination of the two facts makes the liberalism obtain the widespread attention and research. In the process to modernization in China the study on Lu Xun also gets rid of the thinking led by ideology research and starts to shape the contemporary Lu Xun image. As a modern intellectual representative Lu Xun strengthened his resolve to take part in the process of China's pursuing modernization by his independent personality and his independent thinking. The research circle also regards the experience of worry and...