杨明斋是中国最早的马克思主义理论家。在五四文化论争时期,他致力于马克思主义理论在中国的传播,为早期马克思主义在中国的发展作出了巨大贡献。杨明斋以马克思主义的世界观和历史观研究中国问题,从马克思主义理论的角度重新审视儒家传统文化对中国社会产生的影响,并以马克思主义的观点探寻中国社会文化发展的正确方向——社会主义文化。 Yang Mingzhai is China’s earliest Marxist theorist. During the May Fourth cultural debate, he devoted himself to the spread of Marxist theory in China and made tremendous contributions to the early development of Marxism in China. Yang Mingzhai takes Marxist world view and historical view to study China’s problems, and re-examines the influence of Confucian traditional culture on Chinese society from the perspective of Marxist theory and explores the correct direction of Chinese social and cultural development from the Marxist point of view - socialist culture .