Mao Zedong’s Cultural Confidence Thought Research

Cultural confidence is the full recognition and affirmation of a certain cultural subject on the basis of high self-awareness of its own culture,which refers to the firm confidence in its inner vitality,creativity and development power.It is directly related to the happy life of the people,the success or failure of the nation,and the future and destiny of the country.It is a great spiritual driving force for leading cultural undertakings,promoting national rejuvenation and building a strong cultural country.Mao Zedong’s whole life was the one of ups and downs,of unremitting struggle for China’s revolution and construction,and of painstaking efforts to explore the new culture of China and even the whole world.As a great leader of the Chinese people,he completely reversed the “spiritual passivity” of the Chinese people since the Opium War and strived to realize the “standing” and “rising” of the spiritual culture of the Chinese nation with his unique self-confidence,especially through the long-term practice of revolution and construction,writing a glorious chapter of “cultural confidence” in the history of human civilization.The formation of Mao Zedong’s thought of cultural self-confidence has its special social and historical conditions.From the analysis of the time background,Mao Zedong’s thought of cultural confidence was gradually produced and formed when the invasion of foreign powers led to the serious national and cultural crisis,and he adhered to the wishes of his predecessors and sought to save the national crisis and regain cultural confidence.His thought on cultural confidence has a profound theoretical basis and extensive practical basis.He not only inherited the cultural thoughts of classical Marxist writers and drew on China’s long history and culture,but also continued to explore the integration and coexistence of Marxism and Chinese culture during the period of China’s revolution and construction,so as to boost the confidence of the Chinese people and rebuild the confidence of Chinese culture.Mao Zedong’s thought of cultural self-confidence is rich in content,rigorous in logic.It aims to establish cultural self-confidence with the goal of “making the world have a new culture”;By the advanced Marxist theory,cultural self-confidence is guided;Build cultural confidence with the content of “having unique national style”;The main content of Mao Zedong’s cultural self-confidence is expounded from four aspects of enhancing cultural self-confidence with the methodology of “analysis and criticism”.Mao Zedong’s thought of cultural self-confidence has important theoretical significance,expanding the new vision of Marxist theory,improving Mao Zedong’s cultural and ideological system,consolidating the foundation of ideological struggle and enriching the treasure house of world culture.At the same time,it has practical significance for reference,and plays an active role in inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture,building a socialist cultural power,and strengthening the country’s cultural soft power.