general secretary xi jinping pointed out at a ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the cpc: "on the new journey, we must uphold marxism-leninism and mao zedong thought, deng xiaoping theory and" three represents "important thought, the concept of scientific development, fully implement the new era of chinese characteristic socialism, adhere to the basic principle of marxism combining with chinese concrete practice, combining with chinese excellent traditional culture, observe, grasp and lead the times with marxism, and continue to develop contemporary chinese marxism and marxism in the 21st century!" this points out the direction for the sinicization of marxism and the continued development of contemporary chinese marxism.
marxism is the correct choice tested by practice
as the most advanced scientific worldview, methodology and values in the world, marxism profoundly reveals the most general development laws of nature, human society and human thinking, and is the truth reflecting the objective laws of society. the reason why marxism can take root, blossom and bear fruit in china is not only because of the truth and correctness of marxism, but also because some thoughts in traditional chinese culture coincide with marxism. such as chinese culture datong ideal and pursuit of the communist ideal of marxism, the dialectical thought of the chinese culture and the dialectics of marxism, the chinese culture about "to the world as its own duty" "after all the sorrow and the sorrow of the first, the world of joy but joy" life ideal and value pursuit and marxism in human liberation as the highest life ideal pursue, etc., have something in common or congenial; another example is the "unity of man and nature" and the harmonious coexistence between man and nature proposed by laozi and zhuangzi, which is not only the requirement of marx on production and development, but also a vivid embodiment of traditional chinese taoist thought.
when the communist party of china was founded, it was faced with the dual historical tasks of striving for national independence and liberation, and realizing national prosperity and people's happiness. therefore, at the very beginning of its founding, our party took the rejuvenation of the chinese nation and the happiness of the chinese people as its original aspiration and mission. under the historical conditions at that time, the primary task for our party to realize its original aspiration was to carry out the new-democratic revolution, to unite and lead the people in overthrowing the three mountains weighing on the chinese people, and to overthrow imperialism, feudalism and bureaucracy-capitalism. the establishment of china's socialist system is a fundamental change in the form of society, a major change unprecedented in thousands of years of chinese history. the establishment of chinese socialist system is no longer the continuation and replacement of successive feudal dynasties, but the fundamental change of social form. in order to achieve this task, only marxism can play this role from the perspective of ideological and theoretical guidance, because marxism is a theory about the revolution of social forms. only it can guide the communist party of china to solve china's problems, illuminate china at the moment of crisis, and find a road to the rejuvenation of the chinese nation for semi-colonial and semi-feudal china. the victory of china's democratic revolution is a victory for the sinicization of marxism and for the combination of marxism with china's concrete realities. this path was achieved through class struggle and armed struggle, through the struggle of blood and fire, with the bloodshed and sacrifice of millions of people.
after the victory of the new democratic revolution, the communist party of china spent several decades searching for and promoting the path of china's socialist construction and reform. in the same way, only by applying the basic theory and method of marxism and combining china's reality can we gradually understand the relations between productive forces and relations of production, economic foundation and superstructure in the primary stage of socialism, solve what socialism is and how to build socialism, and find the road to build socialism with chinese characteristics. the construction of the road, theory, system and culture of socialism with chinese characteristics is marxism in terms of its guiding ideology and theory, and is a combination of marxism and china's concrete reality. therefore, adopting marxism as our guiding ideology is not a temporary expediency, imposed on us by anyone, or dropped from heaven. it is a solemn historical choice made by the chinese people and a correct choice that has been tested by practice.
combine marxism with excellent traditional chinese culture
if marxism is to take root, blossom and bear fruit in china, it must not only be combined with china's reality, but also with china's history and culture. this is the only way for marxism to be sinicized in china. because, a country, a nation's prosperity, always with cultural prosperity as the support. in modern times, in china's quest to save the country and enrich the people, some people have tried to "cut off history" and "completely westernize", which proved to be unworkable. in fact, the chinese people in the process of the long history of cultivation of excellent traditional culture, is the "root" and "soul" of the chinese nation, is the culture gene and the spiritual home of the chinese nation, is a perennial, development of the chinese nation's rich nourishing, is one of the important ideological and cultural resources in governing, is the important source of socialist core values, it is a fertile cultural ground on which socialism with chinese characteristics has taken root, an important spiritual support for realizing the chinese dream of national rejuvenation, and a solid foundation and prominent advantage for the chinese nation to gain a firm foothold and strengthen its cultural confidence in the turbulent world culture. the power of chinese culture is the deep reason why china has been able to regenerate for countless times.
marxism must be rooted in chinese history and culture if it is to be accepted ideologically and emotionally by china's advanced intellectuals and the chinese people. the great power of marxism lies in its combination with chinese reality, including its combination with chinese history and traditional culture. both the communist party of china and the socialist society are rooted in china, a country of 1.4 billion people with profound historical and cultural traditions. in order to maintain the chinese national characteristics and make the chinese people have a chinese heart, we must inherit the excellent traditional chinese culture and morality. if we do not cultivate the chinese people with the fine traditional culture and morality of the chinese nation, and carry on and carry forward the traditional culture and fine moral traditions of the chinese nation, we cannot cultivate chinese people with high cultural and moral qualities. it is impossible to build a new china with a highly developed civilization and culture even if we gain power.
the combination of marxism and chinese excellent traditional culture is the objective and inevitable requirement of promoting the sinicization of marxism and realizing the creative transformation and development of chinese excellent traditional culture. the combination of marxism and chinese excellent traditional culture is manifested in two processes: marxism becomes chinese marxism through chinese transformation; at the same time, if the ancient fine traditional chinese culture is to adapt to the needs of the new era, it cannot be separated from the theoretical support and methodological guidance of marxism, and from the shining light of marxist truth. only under the guidance of marxism, through creative transformation and innovative development, can traditional chinese culture become a new culture adapted to socialism with chinese characteristics in the new era. the innovative development of chinese culture and the sinicization of marxism are the two aspects of the question of the combination of marxism and excellent traditional chinese culture.
source: party construction network