Historical initiative is the subjective temperament and action character that humans exhibit in understanding the historical process, following historical laws, complying with historical trends, and actively assuming their mission. It is also the practical consciousness of humans "pursuing their own goals.". Based on social reality, classical Marxist writers have made a series of explanations on how to grasp the historical initiative in the practice of proletarian revolution and human liberation. Reviewing and reviewing relevant statements and their practical application has enlightening significance for us to grasp the historical initiative, overcome difficulties and obstacles, and win great victories in the new era. Interpreting historical development with a scientific view of practice traces the development process of ideological history. Before Marx's view of history came into being, human historical development was often considered to be pre existing, predetermined, or understood as the product of God or religion, or as the result of natural laws. For example, Hegel's "entity is the subject" principle holds that the self activity of the absolute spirit is the entity of the subject, governing practice and the development of human society, and that history is the product of the absolute spirit; Feuerbach confused the differences between natural existence and social existence, and fell into idealism when explaining history apriorily with the idealized "quasi essence". In short, from the perspective of traditional philosophy, although historical existence is endowed with dynamism, the ultimate form of historical development is still closed and determined. In this case, history has no "initiative" to speak of. Marx transcended historical and speculative thinking in the past, thoroughly criticized Feuerbach and all old philosophies, and proposed that "all social life is essentially practical", taking practice as the premise and foundation for people to understand the world. Marx insisted on "not explaining practice from the perspective of ideas, but explaining the formation of ideas from the perspective of material practice", because "anything mysterious that leads theory to mysticism can be reasonably resolved in human practice and in the understanding of such practice.". To understand history through "practice", on the one hand, history is no longer defined as the product of some abstract concept, but rather as the open space and possible process constructed by human beings in practice. All history in the real world is generated and developed through practical activities, and history is dynamic and has differences. On the other hand, from the perspective of practice, the relationships between matter and spirit, thinking and existence are in a state of non identity in activities. In Marx's view, it is this non identity that constitutes the driving force of social development. In other words, historical development is precisely in breaking this formal and logical sense of identity, showing the meaning of initiative. As Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out, "Thoughts and so on are subjective things, and actions or actions are subjective and objective things. They are all special human activities. This activity is known as' conscious activity '.". Therefore, taking practice as the logical fulcrum, the veil of historical development was lifted. History is the practical activity of human beings