Interpretation of Ideological Nouns: Reconstruction of Socialist Ideology

Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our party's ideological work has shifted from "taking class struggle as the key link" to the track of serving economic construction, which is a historic change. Without such changes, all the changes in China since 15 would be out of the question. In China, although the concept of "Left" is deeply rooted, its influence is not small, and there have been some minor disturbances. Generally speaking, this change has not been reversed. The consciousness that ideological work serves economic construction has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

We are facing a new transformation from a planned economic system to a socialist market economic system. Decades of practice have proved that the old planned economy is unsuccessful, and the market economy is the best form to develop social productive forces. Therefore, in the new stage of development, ideology serves economic construction, that is, the development of socialist market economy.

The problem now is that in this new historical period, our ideological work has been passive and lagging behind, that is, people usually say that the construction of spiritual civilization is relatively soft. Unfortunately, in many ways, we are still following the outdated things in the old ideology. The old ideology, from system to content, working methods and methods, is based on the planned economy, which can no longer convincingly explain today's reality, let alone serve the socialist market economy. Therefore, it is necessary for us to re-examine the past ideology, inheritance and rejection, and rebuild our ideological system on the soil of socialist market economy.

To rebuild socialist ideology, we must first adhere to the guiding position of Marxism and attach great importance to theoretical construction. Some people may ask, haven't we been vigorously promoting Marxism and socialism for decades? Is there any difference between what you said about "upholding Marxism"?

It's different. An ideology and an ideological system must be ethical and practical if they want to be truly established and become the guiding ideology and spiritual pillar of the whole society. In other words, we should turn it into the public's daily consciousness, let it permeate people's daily life and social interaction, become the norm and belief of people's life, and let people really feel that it is useful for life and work. Confucian culture with Confucius as the core has lasted for two thousand years and has become the orthodox thought and theory of governing the country in Chinese dynasties. One of the important reasons is that this theory, as a social ruling thought, has been completely ethicized and popularized, thus transforming it from the political thought of the ruling class to the daily consciousness and code of conduct known to women and children. In the past, we did a lot of ideological work, trying to establish Marxism as the guiding ideology of society and the spiritual pillar of mankind. However, due to the one-sided emphasis and prominence of political content such as class struggle, we dogmatize it, ignoring or even obliterating Marxist theory on human beings. Learning this kind of Marxism can't solve the problem of human behavior. Marxism has become something outside their real life. Therefore, studying Marxism is not to improve yourself and practice, but to deal with others and show them. In this way, how can Marxism really enter the mind?

Marxism is a rich ideological system, which is not only class-oriented, but also a theory about the dictatorship of the proletariat, as well as a theory about people and values. Marx and Engels devoted their lives to the liberation and development of human beings, and laid the foundation for the scientific revelation of human nature. However, over the years, we have neglected and forgotten these contents in the treasure house of Marxist thought, giving people the impression that Marxism is far from people's real life and Marxism is a cold and hard face. It is time to give a complete description of Marxism. The primary task of rebuilding socialist ideology is to reshape the existing Marxist theoretical system and make it become people's daily consciousness. Ethicizing and practicing Marxism is by no means denying its guiding role, but only consolidating its leading position in socialist ideology.

In order to reconstruct socialist ideology and make spiritual civilization truly excellent, a very important problem is that we can't avoid the new trends and new characteristics in the current ideological field. If we don't know much about this and have no correct understanding and estimation, "reconstruction" will become an empty talk. The new trends and new features of current ideology can be roughly summarized into three aspects.

First, diversity. From a global perspective, the former bipolar world pattern is turning to a multipolar world pattern, which determines that ideology has evolved from an opposing bipolar ideology system to a variety of ideology systems. For example, only socialist theory has spawned dozens of kinds and become a huge family of ideas. This situation is reflected in China, which urges people to re-recognize and understand the existing traditional theories from different angles and leads to the coexistence of various ideological systems.

Diversity is also manifested in the mutual penetration of various disciplines. The modern scientific and technological revolution is in the ascendant, and its achievements have been transferred to the humanities. Modern thinking mode is changing the traditional research methods of humanities, which brings new opportunities for the development of politics, law, ethics, literature and philosophy. Nowadays, no discipline can exist and develop independently without other disciplines, and no discipline can avoid major changes in today's society.

At present, China is moving towards a market economy, which determines the diversified pattern of social and economic structure, that is, multiple forms of ownership, multiple forms of management and distribution coexist, and multiple stakeholders coexist. These social existence are reflected in social consciousness, which makes people's spiritual life and spiritual communication present complexity and diversity. The ideology in the primary stage of socialism reflects the wishes and demands of all social strata and stakeholders, which is very inclusive and inevitably leads to many voices.

Multi-channel involvement in social life is also one of the characteristics of contemporary ideology. On the one hand, with the rise of scientific and technological revolution, science and technology have increasingly become an important means of international political and military struggle, and even become a special ideological force to some extent; On the other hand, with the development of modern communication technology and the wave of cultural secularization, more and more people participate in the creation and dissemination of ideology, which makes various forms and channels of ideology go to the public, thus affecting and interfering with social life.

Second, conflict. At present, in our country, the traditional planned economic system has been broken, and a dynamic new economic system is beginning to emerge. The collision and friction between the old and new systems cannot but affect the construction and development of socialist ideology. 15 since the reform, the ideological field has been full of conflicts and struggles between the old and the new, the advanced and the backward, and the open and the conservative. For example, the theory of primary stage of socialism, the theory of socialist market economy, the theory of socialist essence and the theory of right and wrong judgment have all become the knowledge of the whole nation after fierce conflicts and ups and downs. The question about the form of public ownership and the question about property rights are still in dispute with different concepts and ideas. In the field of law and ethics, the conflict between different ideas is more intense. In addition, China has a vast territory, and people's views and concepts are different in the case of unbalanced economic, cultural and political development, which will also become the inducing factor of ideological conflict.

Third, transition. The period of social transformation is inevitably accompanied by the evolution and renewal of ideology. The May 4th New Culture Movement at the beginning of this century, especially the introduction of Marxism into China, was an ideological revolution. In the process of China's transition from a natural economy to a market economy and from a traditional society to a modern society, a new ideological revolution is bound to take place. In this ideological evolution, the new and the old, the advanced and the backward are not static, and they have great non-standardization, just like the Yellow River with nine twists. Not only that. China is opening to the world in an all-round way, and various thoughts and trends will inevitably flood in for us to screen, digest and absorb, which will further aggravate the ideological variability and transition.

Understanding the new situation and grasping the new trends and characteristics of today's ideology will help us keep a clear head. China society is bidding farewell to yesterday's political wooden bridge and stepping into a new era of all-round and diversified development. History needs a generation of China people, especially intellectuals, to use their brains, give full play to their wisdom, bring forth the old and bring forth the new, and build socialism with China characteristics with new contents and methods.