ABSTRACT
Marxism came into being more than 160 years ago. When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Eastern European nations changed their banners, some Western scholars felt overjoyed and declared bankruptcy of the Marxism and ultimate victory of the capitalism. Over a hundred years, in fact, not only has Marxism had far-reaching effects on academic and intellectual circles and become a most influential trend in humanistic and social sciences but also become a theoretical guide for masses of laboring people to remake the world and reinvent their lives. In the early 1920, communists Li Dazho, Deng Zhongxia, Xiao Chunv, Yun Daiying and Shen Zemin published articles expounding literature and art issues using the materialist conception of history and the theory of reflection. Marxist theories of literature and art constitute a scientific system with rich contents. Among external relationships of literature and art, the most important is the relationship between literature and politics.
