论印刷的意识形态性

On the Ideological Nature of Printing

当印刷跳出“术”的功能而在“道”的层面显示出精神价值的时候,它便是开展意识形态工作的重要阵地。工业革命以来,随着时代的变化、技术的革新,印刷开展“精神生产”的特殊功能导致社会产生了重大变革。近代机械印刷出现后,印刷逐渐成为推动无产阶级政治意识觉醒的重要武器。十月革命前后,印刷成为苏联无产阶级驳斥资产阶级文化、巩固政权的有力工具。中国共产党成立后,印刷则成为中国共产党开展意识形态工作的前沿阵地。从印刷工业革命轨迹可以看出,从诞生之日起,印刷就具有政治功能和意识形态属性。

When printing goes beyond a mere technique and show its spiritual value as a means to influence people’s mindset,the printing industry became an important battleground for ideological work.Since the Industrial Revolution,with the changes of the times and development in technologies,printing,as a way to produce cultural and intellectual products,spearheaded many significant social changes.With the advent of printing machines in the modern times,printing gradually became an important weapon in the fight against feudalism and for capitalism in the West.In Russia,around the time of the October Revolution,printing was a powerful tool with which the proletariat refuted bourgeois culture and strengthened the Soviet regime.In China after the founding of the Communist Party of China(CPC),printing was of critical importance to the CPC’s ideological work.As such,printing,from the day it turned industrial,has served political and ideological functions.