A Study Of Li Dazhao’s Populist Thought

Democracy is the subject that Li Dazhao paid great attention to all his life.Li Dazhao’s populism thought is an important theoretical achievement in the development of his democratic thought,which is the inheritance and development of his early democratic thought,that is,"people yi" thought,and another significant development of Li Dazhao’s democratic thought after he accepted marxism.The emergence of Li Dazhao’s populism thought was rooted in the era he lived in.At that time,the Chinese society was in the period of the Northern Warlords’ disintegration,and the domestic governance was in turmoil.At that time,in the ideological and cultural field of China,some intellectuals were brewing a great ideological and cultural reform,in order to liberate the people’s thoughts and save the country from danger.Viewed from the international background,the world just ended the First World War,and the end of the First World War did not bring the slightest dawn to China,which was also one of the victors of the war,but brought China into a more crisis situation.Such times provided fertile soil for the emergence of Li Dazhao’s populism thought.Of course,Li Dazhao’s personal experience has a very close relationship with the emergence of his populism.In his childhood,Li Dazhao was more exposed to the people-oriented thought that had existed in China for thousands of years.As he grew older,Li Dazhao was educated in Tianjin Law and Politics School and Waseda University in Japan successively.During this period,Li Dazhao was exposed to more western bourgeois democratic thought.After returning home,Li Dazhao established newspapers and to carry out the new culture movement with Chen Duxiu and others,until the outbreak of the Russian October revolution,Li Dazhao thoroughly into a real marxist,Li Dazhao’s life is very short,but he has never abandoned the word "democracy",its populist idea is gradually formed in the process of a series of development.Li Dazhao’s populism thought has profound connotation,among which Li Dazhao thought that women’s liberation movement is the beginning of populism,in a country where women have not been liberated,there is no real populism.The populism discussed by Li Dazhao advocates equality and freedom of human beings and respect for human individuality.He believes that free politics is the true spirit of populism.In addition,Li Dazhao thought,populism is in line with the socialist essence,the dictatorship of the proletariat is from socialism to communism in China is an important process in the process of development,the dictatorship of the proletariat to wait until the management to replace,it means that the real achieved the highest stage of populism,namely the realization of political workers.The contents of Li Dazhao’s populism thought were the main problems that affected the society at that time.Li Dazhao’s populist thought is the inheritance and development of marxist historical materialism,on the liberation of the people’s thought played a huge role,for at that time still in struggling to find a way out of China’s class brought a new idea of development,especially for young people to accept marxism theory has important influence,It laid the foundation for the development of the Chinese workers’ movement and the establishment of the early Communist Party in China.The formation process of Li Dazhao’s populism thought is closely related to the modernization of Chinese society.The populism thought system he constructed reviews the historical process of the modernization of Chinese society,and thus designs the development direction of the modernization of Chinese society in a more idealized way.