Abstract

In this paper, an expert on foreign Mao Zedong Mao Zedong and modern Western ideas about the relationship is a brief comparative study and assessment. An overview of the past from Mao Zedong to accept Marxism suffered a variety of thinking, to change to a Marxist, the theory and practice in the Western thinkers are not conscious "resonance" of these two phases of foreign research results, explores the origins and basis for its conclusions. They believe that Mao's life by the impact of modern Western thought. In my opinion, Mao Zedong and foreign scholars on the relationship of modern Western thought was an enlightened, however, some scholars more extreme view is untenable.