Historical Practice and Inspiration of the Popularization of Marxism of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an Period

Abstract

The popularization of Marxism has the theoretical quality of practicality and mass. So the historical practice of the popularization of Marxism in Yan’an period still provides lessons for contemporary. In Yan’an period, relatively stable external and education and publicity environment on Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, as well as ideological unity within the Party, provided historical practice for the Communist Party of China to promote the popularization of Marxism. CPC launched a series of practical activities, such as translating Marx and Engles classics and writing books, carrying out mass education, re-constructioning social and shaping models. CPC interacted with the mass and had made the mass cognitive, identity and believe Marxist theory. Combined with contemporary Chinese reality, this paper further proposes enlightenments for contemporary the popularization of Marxism.