Past philosophic textbook’s interpretation about the essential spirit of Marxist philosophy and their sticking to dialectical materialism are well-founded. But in stressing the dialectical movement of objective world and dialectical materialism from the objective dimension, they neglect the subjective dimension, which is a serious defect. To overcome this defect, we should express the essential spirit of Marxist philosophy as practice-dominated dialectical materialism. It is of great significance to affirm the leading role of practice in the construction of ontology, epistemology and view of value of Marxist dialectical materialism, which is relevant to the revolutionary essence and fundamental spirit of Marxist philosophy and its correct development direction at the present times.

Editor: zhang Jiangang