Basic Tenets of Marxism represent the highest level of development of Marxism, and to construct China’s independent system of Marxist basic tenets, is an important part of building China’s independent knowledge system of philosophical and social sciences with Chinese characteristics. According to the characteristics and position of basic tenets of Marxism, its system construction presents a “cubic structure” in a crisscross pattern. The unity of synchronicity and diachronicity, the unity of logical whole and historical whole, manifest Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese manner in the system construction of basic tenets of Marxism. Constructing the system of Marxist basic tenets reflects the requirements of “China’s Independence” from three aspects: standing China’s own ground, conceiving China’s own theory and establishing China’s own discourse. To set up such a system, it is necessary to develop a “methodological self-awareness”, which in the final analysis refers to the self-conscious grasp and application of materialist dialectics. As the methodology of basic principles of Marxism, the application of materialist dialectics is not only the theoretical weapon for people to understand and transform the world so as to promote human society from low level to high level, but the theoretical foundation for the formation as well as growth of basic tenets of Sinicized Marxism.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Zheng Yifan

From:Studies on Marxist Theory.2022.No.9.