Hu Xiaokun: Lenin wrote the Philosophical Notes based on the urgent theoretical task of completing the time

Source: People's Daily News

Beijing, 1 Mar (CPC News Network) -- A few days ago, the central and state organs launched the tenth lecture in the series "Revisiting Marxist Classics" in the "Strong Quality and Exemplary" reading activity, inviting Professor Hu Xiaokun of the Marxist College of Fudan University to guide the "Philosophical Notes" with the theme of "Studying philosophy and using philosophy is a good tradition of our party."

Hu Xiaokun believes that the writing of "Philosophical Notes" is based on the urgent theoretical task of completing the era background:

First, the need for the proletarian party to re-establish the theoretical basis of the revolution. The basic ideas of the Philosophical Notes are precisely the concentrated reflection of the development of the practice and theory of the proletarian revolution into a new historical era. It shows the new heights and characteristics of the development of Lenin's philosophical thought.

Second, the need to continue the methodological research of Marx and Engels. The outbreak of the First World War, on the one hand, made the revolutionary, subjective and negative aspects of Marxist materialist dialectics more prominent, making it possible for Lenin to organically combine political tasks with the plan to write a theoretical treatise on materialist dialectics; on the other hand, as Lenin said: "The war has temporarily relieved me of many urgent political tasks." Lenin had time to concentrate on Marxist philosophy, especially on the question of materialistic dialectics.

Thirdly, it argues the need for the socialist revolution to triumph first and foremost in a country. Lenin extensively studied the history of philosophy in the field of Marxist philosophy, especially he studied Hegel's dialectical thought in depth, read nearly 10,000 pages and dozens of philosophical works, made detailed analysis and dissection, critically absorbed the rational factors in it, and made profound summaries and re-creations. The above-mentioned ideological efforts laid a solid theoretical foundation for the subsequent guidance of the practice of the Russian Revolution and pushed Marxism to a new stage.