有人说:“文艺和社会科学不同,有它自己的特殊规律,为什么也要马克思主义指导?在马克思主义产生以前的中外文艺史上,不是也创作出很多优秀作品吗?”言外之意,文艺可以不要马克思主义的指导。显然,这是受了资产阶级自由化思潮影响的一种糊涂认识。 首先,是否以马克思主义为指导,决定着文艺的性质。主要理由是:其一,历史唯物主义认为,任何一个社会形态,都是经济、政治、文化的有机统一,它是不可分割的整体,经济是政治和文化的基础,政治是经济的集中表现和根本保证,而文化又是经济和政治的反映,反过来又给予经济和政治以很大影响。我国是一个社会主义的国家, Some people say: “Literature and the social sciences have their own special laws and why they must be guided by Marxism? In the history of Chinese and foreign literary and art history before the birth of Marxism, did not many excellent works have been created?” In other words, literature and art can not Marx Doctrine Obviously, this is a kind of confused understanding influenced by the trend of bourgeois liberalization. First of all, whether to use Marxism as a guide determines the nature of literature and art. The main reasons are as follows: First, historical materialism holds that any one social form is an organic unity of economy, politics and culture. It is an indivisible whole. Economy is the basis of politics and culture. Politics is a concentrated manifestation of economy. Fundamental guaranty, which in turn is a reflection of economy and politics, which, in turn, has great economic and political consequences. Our country is a socialist country,