Contents and materials of handwritten newspaper commemorating the May 4th Movement100th anniversary.

1. The May 4th Movement was a thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movement, and it was the development and continuation of modern anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism.

1965438+On May 4th, 2009, students from Peking University and other schools gathered at the Paris Peace Conference to protest the transfer of German privileges in Shandong to Japan. Students beat Zhang Zongxiang, one of the representatives of the Beijing government who attended the peace conference, and burned down the residence of another traitor, Cao Rulin-Zhao Jialou. This incident was echoed by people from all walks of life in the country, and finally forced the Beijing government to compromise, refused to sign the Paris Peace Treaty, and dismissed Cao Rulin, Lu and Liu from their positions as traitors. History is called "May 4th Movement".

The May 4th Movement not only forced the Beijing government to refuse to sign the Paris Peace Treaty and dismiss Cao Rulin and others, but also launched a thorough anti-imperialist and anti-feudal mass patriotic movement, which pushed the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle of the people in modern China to a new climax and was the continuation and development of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle of the people in modern China. The May 4th Movement had a profound influence on the politics, culture, thoughts and even social life of China in the 20th century.

Before the May 4th Movement, many anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles broke out in China, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Reform Movement of 1898, the Boxer Rebellion and the Revolution of 1911. However, all previous resistance struggles were centered on opposing feudal forces. Still blindly exclusive, did not recognize the essence of imperialism. The May 4th Movement awakened the people of China and gradually formed their national consciousness. The failure of China's diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference completely disillusioned the people of China with imperialism. The May 4th Movement guided the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles of China's two major enemies at that time, holding high the banner of "punishing national thieves at home and fighting for national rights abroad". The joint action of the broad masses of young students, the working class, the petty bourgeoisie and some bourgeoisie shows an indomitable spirit and is not afraid of threats and repression by the reactionary Beiyang government. This movement is also manifested in the fierce attack on feudalism and the pursuit of the spirit of "democracy and science". In a country with deep-rooted feudalism, the slogan of "democracy, freedom and equality" can be shouted with fearless revolutionary spirit, which opens a new chapter in the history of China.

Second, the May 4th Movement advocated the spirit of democracy and scientific revolution, which inspired generations of young people in China to pursue progress and light.

The May 4th spirit with "democracy and science" as its core is the revolutionary spirit, patriotic spirit and inexhaustible motive force for generations of China youth to pursue progress and brightness. The "democracy" advocated during the May 4th Movement is not only the democracy of the political system, but also a broader concept and spirit of democracy, which is a spirit opposite to feudal ethics and autocracy. To sum up its meaning, we can use "equality of human rights in law, independence of personality in ethics, elimination of superstition in academics and freedom of thought". "Science", as the banner of the May 4th new culture, not only advocates the concrete research of natural science, but also advocates scientific spirit and scientific thought. The May 4th spirit with democracy and science as its core is a revolutionary spirit.

The ideological enlightenment and emancipation of the May 4th New Culture Movement triggered the patriotic movement of the masses, and the outbreak of patriotic sentiments of the masses laid the foundation for the spread of Marxism in China after the May 4th Movement. Chairman Mao once said: "The Cultural Revolution carried out by the May 4th Movement was a movement that completely opposed feudal culture. There has never been such a great and thorough Cultural Revolution in China's history. At that time, opposing old morality, advocating new morality, opposing old literature and advocating new literature were two flags of the Cultural Revolution and made great contributions. "

The May 4th Movement promoted the widespread spread of Marxism in China, and made ideological and cadre preparations for the establishment of the China * * * Production Party. Mao Zedong once vividly described this situation: "The people of China have no ideological weapon to resist imperialism. The old stubborn feudal ideological weapon was defeated, failed and declared bankrupt. As a last resort, the people of China were forced to learn from the armory of the imperialist hometown, that is, the theory of evolution, the theory of natural human rights and the ideological weapons and thoughts of the bourgeoisie in the era of western bourgeois revolution, organize political parties and hold revolutions, thinking that they could defend foreign powers and establish the Republic of China internally. But these things, like feudal ideological weapons, are very weak and irresistible, defeated and declared bankrupt. "

The May 4th Movement is an inevitable revolutionary movement under this social background. It was an exercise for the advanced elements to transform society in order to get rid of the serious social crisis and gain new revolutionary truth. It tried to clean up the feudal system politically and ideologically in an unprecedented manner in the Revolution of 1911, which aroused widespread concern and formed a wave of introduction and discussion. After introduction, research, comparison, demonstration and experiment, the advanced elements finally chose Marxism and Marxism.

The October Revolution provided the people of China with a third choice. Young Mao Zedong announced excitedly: "All roads in the Russian system can't take the road of new invention, but this method contains more possibilities than other methods." Chen Duxiu also said shortly after the May 4th Movement that one of the unique spirits of the May 4th Movement was the "direct action" of the people, which was unprecedented in the Revolution of 1911. The occurrence and development of the May 4th Movement proved the effectiveness of the revolutionary method provided by the October Revolution in China. In this way, the October Revolution and the May 4th Movement became an important motive force for China's advanced elements to choose Marxism.

During the May 4th Movement, the young working class in China first stepped onto the historical stage with an independent attitude and played a decisive role. It was her participation that made the May Fourth Movement jump out of the category of pure student movement, promoted the expansion and deepening of the movement, forced the Beiyang government to release the arrested students, recalled three traitors, Cao, Lu and Zhang, and won the first round of the movement. It was her participation that gave the young intellectuals, as pioneers of the movement, a reliable and powerful backing, and forced the representatives of Beiyang government not to sign a peace treaty, which made the May 4th Movement a direct victory. More importantly, young intellectuals realized the strength of the working class through the May 4th Movement. During the May 4th Movement, a group of progressive intellectuals turned into Marxists, and began to consciously publicize Marxism among workers and organize and lead the workers' movement. In this way, Marxism is combined with the workers' movement through the intermediary role of advanced intellectuals in China. It is this combination that prepared for the establishment of the China * * * production party. From then on, Marxism not only had a reliable material carrier in China, but also changed from revolutionary theory propaganda to revolutionary practice, which opened a new era in the history of China in the 20th century. ;