Li Dazhao’s Exploration Of The Relationship Between Marxism And Confucianism

Li Dazhao ’s early Min Yi thought is divided into Min Yi ’s political view and Min Yi ’s historical view,which embodies the combination of traditional people-oriented thought and western political philosophy,and contains certain materialism and dialectics.This is the theoretical basis for Li Dazhao to explore the relationship between Confucianism and Marxism.After the May Fourth Movement,Li Dazhao gradually criticized the political,moral and historical views of traditional Confucianism with Marxism as a theoretical weapon.The political view of Confucianism takes the realization of ’ internal saints and external kings ’ as the idea of governing the world,and advocates relying on moral education to solve social ills.Li Dazhao corrects the traditional thought of rule of virtue by reconciling class struggle with social mutual aid theory.The political system in ancient China is inseparable from morality and ethics.The criticism of autocratic politics also means the criticism of traditional morality that is compatible with autocratic regimes.Based on Marxist historical materialism,Li Dazhao believed that the alienated Confucian morality under the feudal system would be eliminated by the historical trend.Moreover,the traditional Han Confucian historical view contains mysticism and theoretical defects such as theocracy and destiny.Li Dazhao opposed a priori predestination with the experience generation of historical laws,reinterpreted the laws and dynamics of historical evolution,and carried out in-depth and thorough criticism and reflection on the traditional historical view.With the increasingly firm belief in Marxism,Li Dazhao tried to integrate the people-oriented thought,benevolence morality and the concept of great harmony in Confucianism with Marxist philosophy and scientific socialism to construct a philosophical system with Chinese characteristics.Specifically,this is reflected in the political,moral and historical fields.First,Li Dazhao tried to integrate the traditional people-oriented thought and proletarian democratic politics,and advocated the establishment of " civilian politics." His populist thought was not limited to the political field,but extended to the people ’s livelihood field of peasant revolution and women ’s liberation,which contained political concern for the world.Second,Li Dazhao integrated the traditional Confucian benevolence thought with the new socialist morality,adhered to the parallel of socialist transformation and benevolence,and formed a new moral concept of " labor sacred." Thirdly,Li Dazhao elucidated socialism with " Great Harmony," regarded the dictatorship of the proletariat as the specific path to realize the ideal of Great Harmony,and advocated the establishment of a new communist order that unifies the unity of Great Harmony and individual liberation,thus turning the socialist ideal from fantasy to science.Therefore,the Confucian ideal of great harmony and scientific socialism formed a two-way logical relationship of interaction,integration and integration in the ideological enlightenment movement and social revolutionary practice of saving the nation from extinction in modern China.Li Dazhao ’s discussion on the relationship between Marxism and Confucianism has important theoretical value and practical significance for deepening the development of Marxism in China and promoting the excellent traditional culture of China.This enlightens us to dialectically view the traditional culture dominated by Confucianism in the new era,to scientifically analyze the relationship between traditional culture and Marxism,and to actively promote the combination of the basic principles of Marxism and excellent traditional culture.