毛泽东早期思想从探讨宇宙的“大本大源”入手,进而从维新派、激进民主派等众多思想流派中接受有益的东西并逐步改造和扬弃他们,最后完成由激进民主主义者向马克思主义者转变。本文仅就这一思想发展过程中所表现出来的特点作以探讨。一毛泽东早期思想植根于中国传统文化的土壤并深受其影响“大本大源”是毛泽东早期思想中常常提到的命题,即对世界本源的认识。他说: Mao Zedong’s early thinking started with the exploration of the “great origin” of the universe, and then received useful things from many schools of thought such as reformers and radical democrats and gradually transformed and renounced them. Finally, they completed the process from a radical democrat to a Marxist change. This article only explores the characteristics of the development of this thought. One of Mao Zedong’s early thoughts is rooted in the soil of traditional Chinese culture and deeply influenced by it. “Big and Big Source” is a proposition often mentioned in Mao Zedong’s early thinking, that is, understanding of the origin of the world. He said: