二十世纪四十年代中国马克思主义者对新儒学运动的学术批判

The Chinese Marxists’Academic Criticism of the New Confucianism Movement in the 1940s

20世纪40年代新儒学运动精心构建新儒学理论体系,践行自由讲学精神,同时还实验社会改良的政治理想,因而从总体上看,现代新儒家是一种学术派别、学术思潮,但又不单纯是学术思潮,它同时带有一定的政治倾向。新儒学运动在文化观及如何认识和对待传统文化问题上,与马克思主义者之间存在着根本的学理分歧。中国马克思主义者对新儒学运动的唯心主义实质开展学术批判,既推动了马克思主义中国化的历史进程,同时在运用马克思主义方法上也存在某种程度的教条主义倾向。

In the 1940s the new Confucianism movement carefully constructed the theoretical system of new Confucianism, practiced the spirit of free lectures, and at the same time experimented the political ideal of social reform. It can thus be seen that on the whole the modem new Confucianism is an academic group and represents an academic trend, but it is not purely an academic trend and it also has its political inclination. There are fundamental academic differences between the new Confucianism and Marxists in cultural concepts and in how to understand and deal with the traditional Chinese culture. The academic criticism, launched by the Chinese Communists, of the idealism nature of the new Confucianism movement promoted the historical process of adaptation of Marxism to Chinese conditions, but regrettably their application of Marxist methods was tainted with a certain degree of dogmatism.