In this regard, the Beiyang government of China at that time failed to defend the national interests and was weak in the face of foreign powers, which made China people extremely dissatisfied and took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction.
2. What happened: On May 4th, students in Beijing demonstrated against this unreasonable decision of imperialism and the compromise of Beiyang warlord government. This movement quickly won the response of the people of the whole country, and after June 3, it developed into a broad mass anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movement in which the working class, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie participated.
3. Results: The door of new democracy in China was opened; The May 4th Movement showed the thoroughness of anti-imperialism. The May 4th Movement is a real mass movement. If one of the fundamental weaknesses of the Revolution of 1911 was that the masses were not widely mobilized and organized, then the May 4th Movement itself was a mass revolutionary movement.
The May 4th Movement promoted the spread and development of Marxism in China. The May 4th Movement was a resolute anti-imperialist movement initiated by students and expanded by workers. This is a new-democratic revolution led by the proletariat. The May 4th Movement was the beginning of the new-democratic revolution.
4. Time:1965438+May 4, 2009;
5. Characters: Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Cai Yuanpei;
6. Background: It happened after the New Culture Movement; The New Culture Movement held high the banner of democracy, science, human rights and freedom, which inspired and influenced the people of China, especially the youth of China, in the ideological and cultural field, and fundamentally laid the ideological foundation and intellectual source of the May 4th Movement.
Extended data
In a broad sense, the May 4th Movement not only refers to the May 4th Incident of 19 19, but also includes the previous New Culture Movement, which was actually mainly catalyzed by two major ideological trends: radicalism and liberalism. The historical reason for the intersection of these two ideological trends lies in their common interests in resisting traditional cultural absolutism and devoting themselves to the construction of democratic politics.
Chen Duxiu's "democracy" and "science" in Answer to the Crime of New Youth, and Hu Shi's "revaluation of all values" in The Significance of New Ideological Trends are all their * * * knowledge.
The marriage of radicalism and liberalism has injected dual impetus into the movement, but after all, the two major ideological trends have their own origins, different orientations and different personalities, which doomed their split and discrete ending.
The dual impetus of the May 4th Movement determines the dual colors associated with it. Alexis de tocqueville, a French historian, once described the French Revolution that shocked the whole of Europe as follows: "18th century and the Great Revolution, like the source of * * * *, produced two great streams, the first one led people to pursue freedom, and the second one led people to pursue absolute power". The May 4th Movement also presented a similar situation.
On the one hand, it is related to the historical development of China. The May 4th Movement developed and strengthened two concepts: revolution and democracy. Ideologically, the revolutionary leaders rebelled against the old system, old ideas, old customs and old lifestyles; Democracy has become the value standard and conceptual basis for people to seek to establish a new society, new politics, new morality and new way of life.
The two are not the same thing. Revolution is not equal to democracy. On the contrary, the process of revolution is often accompanied by intolerance and a life-and-death struggle. Revolution sometimes conflicts with democracy, even at the expense of democracy.
Democracy is not a revolution. Democracy is a code of conduct that all political factions should follow, a social contract that all social interest groups depend on each other, and a way of life that recognizes people's own value and allows them to develop freely. Judging from the long-term development of human history, democracy is a historical process, and the way to seek democracy is gradually more reasonable and fruitful than revolution.
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