Mao Zedong's Thinking Tendency and Its Process of Transformation during the May 4th Movement

Mao Zedong's Marxist Weltanschauung was formed during the May 4th Movement of 1919. The common idea about Mao Zedong's thinking transformation during that time is that he had already been a Marxian in the winter of 1920. This paper disagrees. After analyzing the historical materials, it points out that Mao Zedong began to accept Marxism during the late of 1920 and the beginning of 1921, and he gradually became a Marxian through organizing the worker's political movement later on. From the subjective idealistic to the establishment of materialist conception of history, Mao Zedong at last discarded the petty bourgeoisie anarchism and the democratic amelioration, and he changed to the proletarian communism. But he didn't know a lot about the materialistic dialectics, it made Mao Zedong's philosophy Weltanschauung be only the primary Marxism.