“Li Ta-chao and the origins of Chinese marxism” (Publication, 1967)
Year
1967
Text
Meisner, Maurice. Li Ta-chao and the origins of Chinese marxism. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1967). [Li Dazhao]. (MeiM1)
Type
Publication
Contributors (2)
Li, Dazhao
(Leting, Hebei 1889-1927 Beijing, Hinrichtung) : Professor für Geschichte und Bibliothekar Beijing Universität, Mitbegründer der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas, Marxist
Meisner, Maurice J.
(Detroit, Mich. 1931-2012 Madison, Wisc.) : Harvey Goldberg Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Subjects
Communism / Marxism / Leninism
/
Sinology and Asian Studies : United States of America
Chronology Entries (3)
| # | Year | Text | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1918 |
Li, Dazhao. Fa O ke ming zhi bi jiao guan [ID D19727]. Li schreibt : From the point of view of the history of civilizations, any particular national civilization has its period of flourishing and its period of decline. The counries of Europe, like France and England, have reached a period of maturity in civilization. They no longer have the strength to advance any further. German civilization is today like the sun in the heavens controlling the forces of the world... [but] according to the history of the past, a period of flourishing is followed by a period of decline. Even though Russia geographically occupies a position on the European continent, in comparison with the other countries of Europe the rate of progress of Russian civilization has been slow for the past three centuries. History tells us that the Mongolian invasions stopped the growth of Russian civilization, caused it to return to barbarism and stagnate. Therefore the European Renaissance had no influence on Russia and Russia became completely isolated from European civilization. Because of this isolation, Russia's progress in civilization was comparatively slow with respect to the other nations of Europe, and just because of its comparative slowness in the evolution of civilization there existed surplus energy for development. |
|
| 2 | 1919 |
Li, Dazhao. Wo de Makesi zhu yi guan [ID D19714]. Quellen : Kawakami, Hajime. Marukusu no shakaishugi no rironteki taikei (1919). Fukuda, Tokuzô. Zoku keizaigaku kôgi (1913). Li Dazhao schreibt : Seit der russischen Revolution breitete sich der Marxismus in der ganzen Welt aus. Soziale Revolutionen brachen nacheinander in Deutschland, Österreich und Ungarn aus. Sie alle hatten den Marxismus als Leitidee. Maurice Meisner : Li Dazhao looked at Marxist doctrine with considerably less enthusiasm than he had displayed in greeting the Bolshevik revolution, he was convinced of the necessity of propagating 'the orthodox teaching' accompanying the great transformation of the world. His article ist a summary of some of the main concepts of orthodox Marxist theory, which he drew from Japanese translations of Marx. it was the most systematic and serious treatment of Marxism to be published in Chinese. In general Li accept the elements of Marxism that emphasize the importance of political activity and the consciousness of men, that ist, those elements that promise a relatively rapid revolutionary transformation. He was critical of the deterministic aspects of Marxist doctrine, which seemed to him to encourage passivity or imply the necessity for a long period of economic development as a prerequisite for revolutionary political change. Li was immediately receptive to the theory of class struggle, which, if separated from the economic precondistion underlying it, places heavy emphasis upon the role of conscious political activity in the making of history. He viewed the phenomenon of class struggle in relatively simple terms ; it was the eternal conflict between the propertied and the unpropertied, between the oppressors and the exploited. The theory of class struggle, more-over, was an inevitable manifestation of the universal drive toward progressive self-expansion in both biological and social phenomena. Li therefore implied that Marx's concept of class struggle was not really alien to the Chinese intellectual milieu since it was supported by evolutionary theory in general and the writings of Spencer in particular. However Li was aware of certain ambiguities in Marx's treatment of class struggle. He noted that whereas Marx denied that class activity determines the movement of economic forces, Marx also declared that all history has been the history of class struggle and affirmed that the activities of social classes can influence the whole direction of the social process. |
|
| 3 | 1920 | Chen Duxiu bekennt sich zu Marxismus, Bolschewismus und Kommunismus. |
|
Sources (3)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1906 |
Zhu, Zhixin. Deyizhi she hui ge ming jia xiao zhuan. In : Min bao ; no 2-3 (Jan., Juni 1906). [Kurzbiographien von deutschen Revolutionären. Lebenslauf von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels, Vorstellung des Kommunistischen Manifests als erste Teilübersetzung und des Kapitalismus]. 德意志革命家小傳 |
Publication / Marx31 |
|
| 2 | 1908 |
[Engels, Friedrich]. Jia ting, si you zhi he guo jia de qi yuan. In : Tian yi bao (1908). Übersetzung von Engels, Friedrich. Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats. (Hottingen-Zürich : Schweizerische Genossenschaftsbuchdruckerei, 1884). [4. erg. Aufl. (Stuttgart : Dietz, 1892)]. 家庭, 私有制和国家的起源 |
Publication / Eng5 |
|
| 3 | 1918 | Li, Dazhao. Fa O ke ming zhi bi jiao guan. In : Yan zhi ji kan ; no 3 (July 1918). [Vergleich der französischen und russischen Revolution]. | Publication / LiDa1 |
|
Cited by (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2000- | Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich | Organisation / AOI |
|