The Marxistness of China’s Revolutionary Experience

This is the most essential experience we have drawn from the summing up of China’s revolutionary process. The Marxistness of China's revolutionary experience refers to make the scientific summary of China's revolutionary experience and make the theoretical interpretation of Marxism.

On September 10, 1941, Mao Zedong pointed out in his speech at the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party: "We should make the Chinese revolution rich in practical Marxism."

On August 22 of the same year, Mao Zedong wrote in his Letter to Xie Juezai on “Summing up Experiences in Financial and Economic Work”: “All people (including Communist Party members) can only use their own experience as the starting point or methodology for speaking, doing things, making decisions and making plans. Therefore, it is very important to absorb new experience. What they have not heard is not even a dream. At the same time, it is also very important to sum up historical experience.” Because “the China of today has developed from the China in history; as we are believers in the Marxist approach to history, we must not cut off our whole historical past ... This is very helpful in guiding the great movement at the moment.” “To sum up experience, we should use Marxist standpoint, Marxist viewpoint and Marxist methodology.”

Mao Zedong pointed out: “The basic method of Marxism-Leninism is the method of analysis … Without analysis, we cannot synthesize, and synthesis is the result of analysis, and analysis is the means of synthesis, so only by dissecting things can we summarize them. To sum up experience, it is necessary to generalize theory and turn it into theory. To sum up experience, we should generalize theory and make it rise to theory.” As Mao Zedong said: "We should improve it and make it systematic and orderly. What is theory? Systematic knowledge, and Marxist-Leninist theory is systematic knowledge based on Marxism."