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Chinese Marxist philosophy
Overview
Chinese Marxist philosophy is the philosophy of dialectical materialism that was introduced into China in the early 1900s and continues in Chinese academia to the current day.
Marxist philosophy was initially imported into China between 1900 and 1930, in translations from German, Russian, and Japanese. The Chinese translator of Darwin's The Origin of Species, Ma Junwu, was also the first one who introduced Marxism into China. For Ma, evolutionism and Marxism are the secrets of social development. This was before the formal dialectical materialism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in which many independent radical intellectuals embraced Marxism. Many of them later joined the CCP.
Chinese Dialectical Materialism began to be formalized during the 1930s, under the influence of Mitin's New Philosophy. In the late 1930s, Mao Zedong would begin to develop his own sinified version of Dialectical Materialism that was independent of the Soviet Philosophy. Maoist Dialectics remained the dominant paradigm into the 1970s, and most debates were on technical questions of dialectical ontology. In the 1980s the Dengist reforms led to a large-scale translation and influence of works of Western Marxism and Marxist Humanism.
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These our philosophic ideas have had an incubation period of about twenty years since they were first given to the world in Marx's "Misere de la Philosophie" and the Communist Manifesto until they obtained a wider and wider influence through the publication of "Capital" and now find recognition and support far beyond the limits of Europe in all lands where a proletariat exists together with progressive scientific…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
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Economic causes operate through men's desire for possessions, and would be supreme if this desire were supreme, even if desire could not, from a philosophic point of view, be explained in materialistic terms. There is, therefore, no logical connection either way between philosophic materialism and what is called the "materialistic conception of history." It is of some moment to realize such facts as this, because…
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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Hegel had freed history from metaphysics--he had made it dialectic; but his conception of history was essentially idealistic. But now idealism was driven from its last refuge, the philosophy of history; now a materialistic treatment of history was propounded, and a method found of explaining man's "knowing" by his "being," instead of, as heretofore, his "being" by his "knowing."
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
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Philosophers who discussed Chinese Marxist philosophy
Related ideas
- Karl Marx
- Marxism
- Mao Zedong
- Mathematical logic
- Xi Jinping
- Ontology
- On the Origin of Species
- Fredric Jameson
- Marxist humanism
- Marxist philosophy
- Dialectical materialism
- Western Marxism
- Friedrich Engels
- Oxford University Press
- Chinese Communist Party
- On Contradiction
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Part of Chinese philosophy.
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