1840年以来的近代中国,一直在寻求着摆脱贫弱的出路。在探索中,中国人逐渐转向西方,学习富强和进步的技术和制度,这是一个同时吸收西方思想滋养,寻求和选择信仰的过程。但终因其不能给中国找到真正的出路,而萎缩和丧失了信仰。马克思主义信仰,在近代中国后来居上,成为最有生命力的思想资源,在中国人的反复比较选择中,在中国旧民主主义革命失败和俄国十月革命胜利的对比中,显示出科学性和对中国人的亲和力,最终被确定为中国人民的主流信仰。 Modern China since 1840 has been seeking a way out of poverty. In their exploration, the Chinese gradually turned to the West to learn the techniques and systems of prosperity and progress, a process that at the same time absorbs Western ideas to nourish, seek and choose their faith. But in the end it could not find a real way out for China, but it shrank and lost its faith. Marxism faith came from behind in modern China and became the most viable ideological resource. In the comparative choice of Chinese people, in the contrast between the failure of China’s old democratic revolution and the victory of Russia’s October revolution, Human affinity finally came to be identified as the mainstream belief of the Chinese people.