毛泽东同志是一个伟大的马克思列宁主义者。同时,也和伟大的导师马克思、恩格斯、列宁一样,他成为无产阶级的革命家,有一个转变的过程。正如毛泽东同志自己所说:“我这个人从前就有这种非马克思主义的思想,马克思主义是后来才接受的。”这个转变,完成于“五四”时期。“五四”时期,中国有一批先进分子,在十月革命的影响下,在当时的国际、国内条件下,先后由民主主义者转变为马克思主义者。在这一批先进分子当中,毛泽东同志是杰出的代表之一。研究和探讨毛泽东同志的这种思想转变过程,这对于了解毛泽东思想的产生和发展,完整地、准确地掌握毛泽东思想体系,是非常必要的。 Comrade Mao Zedong is a great Marxist-Leninist. At the same time, like the great mentors Marx, Engels and Lenin, he became a proletarian revolutionary and had a process of transformation. As Comrade Mao Tse-tung himself said: “This man has always had such non-Marxist ideas and Marxism later accepted it.” This transformation was completed in the period of the May 4th Movement. During the May 4th Movement, a group of China’s advanced elements, under the influence of the October Revolution, were transformed from democrats to Marxists under the then prevailing international and domestic conditions. Among these advanced elements, Comrade Mao Zedong is one of the outstanding representatives. Studying and discussing this process of thinking transformation by Comrade Mao Zedong is very necessary for understanding the emergence and development of Mao Zedong Thought and for a complete and accurate grasp of Mao Tse-tung’s ideological system.