Abstract
Marxism was not only a set of philosophical theory but also the ideology of the Party. The Sinicization of Marxism was a process in which the abstract principles of Marxism became the guiding ideology of the CPC under the specific practical environment of China. The Sinicization of Marxism was based on the combination of Marxism and the Party, the Chinese people, as well as that of Marxism and the revolutionary practice in China. In this process, political ritual as a part of the Party’s ideology played an important role. And the practical experience of political ritual in the period of the new democratic revolution could give some inspiration to current and future ideological work.
Highlights
Ritual was always performed by some people, under specific space-time conditions with certain prescriptive, symbolic means to express certain meaning
As an externalization of ideology, political ritual played important roles in such two aspects: On one hand, Marxism was tested by practice in the process of guiding Chinese revolution
In the early period of the combination of Marxism and the Chinese revolution, the Chinese revolution was misled by some wrong ideas, so it was once at a very critical juncture
Summary
Ritual was always performed by some people, under specific space-time conditions with certain prescriptive, symbolic means to express certain meaning. There was some definition of political ritual in the existing academic discourse, such as “political ritual was one of many ritual types and a common political landscape in social life. It was a kind of action based on certain beliefs, with obvious power attributes and certain compulsory norms. It was very urgent that Marxism must be combined with China’s specific conditions This process was the Sinicization of Marxism. This article was to show you the forms of political ritual in the Sinicization of Marxism and how they played their role
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