On Philosophical Foundation And Study Of Mao Zedong’s Thought Of The People’s War

The military thought of Mao Zedong’s people war, as a war outlook and methodology, is inherited from Marxist Philosophy and it also promotes the development and innovation of Marxist Philosophy. It is both the essence of Mao Zedong’s military thought and worldview and methodology of military activities, which embodies the spirits and basic principles of Marxist Philosophy.In order to seek the truth of salvaging the country, Mao Zedong has made arduous exploration. After being exposed to Marxist philosophy, his worldview has gradually transformed from the idealism and dualism into dialectical and historical materialism, which is also the ideological foundation of Mao Zedong Thought of the People’s War at early stage. On Practice and On Contradiction mark the systematization and theorizing of Mao Zedong philosophy thought. It is also the profound summary of epistemology and dialectics of Marxist philosophy with Chinese characteristics. Furthermore, it’s the theoretical sources of the unity of subjective and objective of war subject in People’s War Thought. Also, it works the same way for Military Dialectics. Mao Zedong has applied the historical materialism principles, "the people are the creators of history," to command the war. He regards the people’s war as a basic point of the war, which connects "soldiers" with "people" together. Thus, it becomes the core philosophy of Mao Zedong ’s Military Philosophy. It also summarizes the historical experience in revolutionary activities under the difficult situation in which the enemy is stronger than us in the long term.By studying the works of Mao, this paper analyzes the ideological foundation of early concept of Mao Zedong war formed the basis of epistemological of subject war, the basis of war dialectic based practice and the basis of historical materialism relying on people, which has far-reaching significance to our modern concept of people’s war of national defense transformation.