Mao Zedong?? military thoughts
Paper Superviser : Dr. Sekou Conde
Minzhu University of China
2006-2007 Academic Year
Abstract: President Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are a scientific theory. Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are important component of the Marxism military thoughts. Although the wars present a completely different development momentum ,Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are still the spiritual pillar and theoretical basis for China??/span>s construction today. And Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are the hope for the strong of China, and also are the soul of our army. Facing the reality of profound changes, Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts still have the permanent guiding sense today.
Key words: Mao Zedong; military thoughts;
Introduction:
This article mainly discusses Mao Zedong??/span>s military issue and it is divided into several parts to make the elaboration for theory origin of Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts, the historical situation, the connotation characteristic and the problems of insistence and developments of Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts.
In the wartime years, through using Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts nimbly, we gained a lot of great victories one after another and finally we found the new China. Along with the development of globalization, the contemporary world changes everyday. And the wars present completely different development momentum. We can see this from the Kosovo war, the Afghan war and the Iraq War happened these years. The wars have already surmounted land, sea and air three-dimensional space from the traditional way. They are multi-directional and multi-level. In the worldwide scale, it has raised vigorous and new military revolution tide. Under this situation, some people believe that we once had defeated the superiority enemies with the weak military force strength under the Mao Zedong military thoughts as instruction, so we have not only defeated the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang army, but also has disputed with the American army. Therefore, we may cope with events by sticking to a fundamental principle as usual from now on. Another people believe that Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts can not indicate the modern wars with high technology. They are out of date.
Actually, the above two viewpoints are one-sided. Then, facing the new situation, how to use and develop Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts? What role will the Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts play in our country future military strategy? These are questions need us to study. Taking reforms, the opening and the socialist modernization as the dominant characters of Contemporary China??/span>s reality, they are occurred in the big background of peace, development and the economic globalization. Facing the reality of profound changes, Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts still have the permanent guiding sense.
The background that Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts was produced
After the Opium War in the year 1840, under the imperialism's aggression and the oppression, feudal society of China disintegrated gradually, and became to be a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The Chinese people stared to against the imperialism’s aggression and the domestic class's oppression continuously, from the Movement of Taiping Tianguo and the Movement of Yihetuan to 1911 Revolution. However, these struggles were finally defeat. The historical facts proved that the farmer, the petty bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie could not solve theory and the problems of practice correctly of China’s armed forces struggle. Only Chinese proletariat as an independent political power into the historical arena, and after independently lead the Revolutionary struggle, it was then gradually formed into theory system that fit the Chinese national condition military. Then it guided China to the victory through the armed struggle.
1. The overview of President Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts
President Mao Zedong was born in a peasant family in a small village of Shaoshan, in Hunan Province in China on December 26, 1893. And he died on September 9, 1976. His own actions proved that he was a disturbed factor both at the family and in school when he was young. It was he, who later became a great man, became the great founder of People's Republic of China, became the founder of the People's Liberation Army,??/span>became the traitor of the old era of China. And he was also thought to be a great Marxist, a theorist and a strategist and a poet. He made the great indelible contributions to China’s revolution. Although Mao Zedong also had his shortcomings and mistakes during his old age, far more than his fault, he was still regards as greatest national hero in the history of the China.
The great president Mao Zedong left us for about 30 years, but with the passage of time, the name of Mao Zedong still have a lot of charm for every Chinese people even for the whole world. Besides his spirits,??/span>he also left a lot of books for us. The major works of him are "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" ," Selected Works of Mao Zedong??/span>s letters "," Selected Works of Mao Zedong??/span>s rural investigation "," Selected Works of Mao Zedong??/span>s journalism "and" Mao Zedong??/span>s Poems election" and so on.[1]
Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts is an important component of Mao Zedong Thoughts system. During the wartime, he had defeated enemies by the extraordinary military thoughts and founded the People's Republic of China. If there did not have Mao Zedong in China, there not to have new China. These words are absolutely true! But all these originate from the Mao Zedong??/span>s outstanding military ability and the magnificent successes in the wars. Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts were like flare in the dark night's that shined the path which goes forward. The research and inheritance of Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are each Chinese's responsibility and the duty. In particular, his military thoughts are still the spiritual pillar and theoretical basis for China.
Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are proletariat military theories of China. They are the products which are the Marxism theories and China’s revolutionary wars and the national defense development unified. Under the instruction of Mao Zedong??? military thoughts, Chinese people have gained one after another great victories in different type wars. With the victory of the Chinese revolutionary war, Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts were spread to every corner of the world.[2]
Academics both at home and abroad do a lot of researches on them from different angles. Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts are glory records of China??/span>s revolutionary war. The great victory of China??/span>s revolutionary wars has fully affirmed the historical situation of Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts. After the founding of our nation, it directed the Chinese people to obtain the great victories of defense modernization, the Korean War and the frontier counterattacks in self-defense combat??/span>s. The Mao Zedong military thoughts have been proven the correct military theories by??/span>practice. Its elementary theories, especially these had reflected the principle and rules of things essence, will continue to play the instruction roles to China?????/span>future wars against aggression??/span>
Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts even have received the overseas attention since they are formed. Many people do researches and the studies to them. And it has already exceeded the national boundary, and becomes the important research object of world military theories. During 1960s to 1970s, the Mao Zedong military??/span>s thoughts were widely spread in the third world countries and became formidable thought weapon of many countries which were oppressed and strived for national independence and the liberation.[3] The Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts holds an important status in the world??/span>s military thoughts history. The basic principle of Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts still has the instruction function Chinese army's comprehensive construction under the new situation .
2.The theoretical sources of Mao??/span>Zedong??/span>s military thoughts
In recent years, academics agreed that the party's of first-generation central leadership with Mao Zedong as the core formed Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts in leading the Chinese revolution and construction of national defense both inherited and developed Marxist military theories and absorbed the transformed of the ancient and modern outstanding military heritage. Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts had several sources that inherited and developed of Marxist military theories, criticized and enriched of military theories of ancient China, transformed and used of military thoughts of modern bourgeois both Chinese and foreign.
First, the stand, viewpoint and method of Marxist philosophy are the cornerstone that formed Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts.
President Mao Zedong used dialectical materialism on a number of military issues. First of all, Mao Zedong pointed that the laws of war and war were changed with the location, time conditions changed in the view of the development and changes and specific analysis of specific situations. There was no absolutely fixed things, only a relatively.[4] Mao Zedong pointed the principle of mutual conversion rule in both the war situation from the rules of the unity and opposites.[5] Marxism holds the idea that people are the creators of history and they are the decisive force of social change. Mao Zedong??/span>s ideology of people's war is the successful use of fundamental rules of Marxism-Leninism .It revealed the nature and the laws of the war. Class and the struggle of class are also the basic view Marxism. It’s also the basic viewpoints of the war of Mao Zedong.
Second, the military theories that the proletariats Marx and Lenin created was the root theories of Mao Zedong??/span>s military thoughts.
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