Further Discussion on Mao Zedong's New Democratic Theory and China's Modernization
Mao Zedong's exploration of the path of modernization in China held an important position in the history of modernization.The New Democratic Theory he founded was also an important theory of China's modernization,answering the question of how to carry out modernization construction in an economically and culturally backward agricultural country like China:linking social revolution with modernization,transforming production relations through the new democratic revolution to achieve national modernization,and initiating the historical process of modernization under the conditions of new democracy;breaking through the barriers of agricultural ideology formed over thousands of years,clearly pointing out that the fundamental way for China's modernization was industrialization;transforming an agricultural country into an industrial country,which providing a practical and feasible path for China's modernization;proposing the establishment of a new democratic country and society,which not only clarified the boundary with the Kuomintang's Chiang Kai shek's semi fascist and semi feudal capitalism and the boundary with European and American capitalism,but also did not follow the Soviet Union's direct entry into socialism,and designed a modernization path from new democracy to socialism;clearing the obstacles of populist ideology and proposing that capitalist ideas must be utilized and absorbed in the process of China's modernization construction,which opened up broad space for China's modernization development;proposing and implementing the overall line for the transitional period,with industrialization as the leading factor in the transition to socialism,creating an economic foundation for social transformation,and initiating the actual process of socialist modernization construction.
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