THE PROCESS OF SINICIZATION OF MARXISM: LI JUNJU’S THEORETICAL RECONSTRUCTION FEATURES

Abstract

The attributive characteristics of the conceptual approach, which forms one of the dominant ideational and political-ideological trends in Chinese historical-philosophical and social science discourses and provides justification for the narrative that the axis of development of Marxist thought in China during the 1930s–2010s was a gradual process of its Sinicization, are analyzed and revealed based on the study of publications by representatives of the Chinese community of philosophers and social scientists as well as the provisions of the CPC’s basic program documents. The philosophical-methodological, socio-political, and ideological features of such a nationalized version of the Marxist theoretical model, which received the name «Sinicized Marxism («Marxism with Chinese characteristics») in modern literature, have been revealed and characterized by means of a theoretical comparison of ideas from various and sometimes alternative interpretations by Chinese scientists of the history and logic of the relationship between the Western, Soviet (Marxism-Leninism) and Chinese Marxism and, above all, through a thorough analysis of the theoretical reconstruction, done by Li Junju, of the essence, stages and defining tendencies of the purposeful and initiated by the leaders of the CPC adaptation of axiomatics and the political and ideological component of the Marxist teaching to the conditions and tasks of national-state and socialist construction in the PRC. It was the system of his socio-political and ideological prescriptions and values that formed the theoretical foundation of the strategic doctrine of the Communist Party of China — «building socialism with Chinese characteristics».