Author: Ye Hongyun (special researcher of Beijing Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center and associate professor of Beijing Jiaotong University)
Attaching great importance to the transformation of the subjective world and persisting in ideological party building are our party’s fine traditions and important political advantages. Consciously transform the subjective world with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, and deeply understand a series of requirements of this thought on strengthening ideals and beliefs, enhancing ideological realm and strengthening party spirit training, so as to always maintain the political nature of communist party people. This is not only a new requirement and task to promote the new great project of Party building, but also of great significance for us to transform the objective world in the new era and journey, to transform the truth contained in the Party’s innovation theory into a powerful practical force to resolve problems and contradictions, overcome risks and challenges, and to promote new progress and breakthroughs in Chinese modernization.
It is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s fine tradition to consciously transform the subjective world.
Subjectivity and objectivity are a pair of basic contradictions in human practical activities. Whether people’s subjective understanding conforms to objective reality is an important condition for the success of practical activities. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out in "On Practice" that the struggle of the proletariat and the revolutionary people to transform the world includes the following tasks: transforming the objective world and transforming their own subjective world — — Transform your cognitive ability and the relationship between the subjective world and the objective world. The subjective world is a multi-faceted, multi-level and multi-dimensional spiritual world, including thinking mode, ideals and beliefs, knowledge and ability, emotional will and moral concepts. As far as a political party is concerned, its subjective world refers not only to the ideological state of the whole party, but also to the ideological state of the individuals in the party, which is a concrete historical unity.
People’s subjective world is gradually generated and developed in practice, and at the same time it has an important impact on practice. "Book of Rites University" pointed out that "the ancient desire is clearly superior to the world, and the country should be ruled first; If you want to govern your country, you should first get your family together; If you want to get your family together, repair your body first; If you want to cultivate your body, you should first correct your heart. " Wang Shouren, a thinker in the Ming Dynasty, paid attention to the unity of knowledge and action, and thought that "knowing is the idea of doing, and doing is the work of knowing; Knowing is the beginning of doing, and doing is the achievement of knowing. " All these affirm the importance of subjectivity to objectivity.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is a Marxist political party with a high degree of historical consciousness, which adheres to dialectical materialism and historical materialism world outlook. Since its establishment, it has placed the party’s ideological and theoretical construction in an important position. In order to maintain the advanced nature and purity of the Party, the First Congress of the Party "decided to pay special attention to organizing workers and educating them in the spirit of communism". Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out in "The Struggle in Jinggangshan": "The problem of proletarian ideological leadership is a very important issue", and clearly put forward the important idea of building the party ideologically. In 1941, in order to thoroughly solve and eliminate the erroneous influence of Wang Ming’s "Left" dogmatism in the Party, the Party carried out Yan ‘an rectification movement, improved party member’s theoretical level of Marxism-Leninism by studying and carrying out criticism and self-criticism, established the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, promoted the process of Marxism in China, realized a great revolution in which the Party consciously transformed the subjective world, and laid an ideological foundation for winning the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the new-democratic revolution.
After the founding of New China, during the period of socialist revolution and construction, the new period of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, the Party persistently strengthened the Party’s ideological and theoretical construction and conducted many party-wide education activities on Marxism and party spirit. Especially since the reform and opening up, in the face of profound changes in the economic system, social structure, interest pattern and ideas, Party consolidation activities, "three stresses" education activities, Theory of Three Represents study and education activities, education activities to maintain the advanced nature of the Communist Party of party member, in-depth study and practice of Scientific Outlook on Development, the party’s mass line education and practice activities, special education on "three strictness and three realities", study and education on "two studies and one doing", education on "Do not forget your initiative mind, bearing in mind the mission", study and education on the history of the Party, and study and implement the theme education of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era of the supreme leader, etc., have been carried out to maintain the advanced nature and purity of the party. As the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "One of the important reasons why the Communist Party of China (CPC) has been able to grow and develop through hardships and hardships is that our party has always attached importance to building the party with ideas and strengthening the party with theory, so that the whole party has always maintained a unified thinking, firm will, coordinated actions and strong combat effectiveness."
Consciously transforming the subjective world is the inherent requirement of strictly administering the party in an all-round way
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. How to coordinate the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the unprecedented changes in the world in the past century, unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to build a socialist modern power in an all-round way and realize the goal of the second century, put forward higher requirements for the party’s leadership and new tasks for the party’s ideological and theoretical construction.
In view of the loose management of the party and the outstanding problems that have affected the party’s long-term governance, the CPC Central Committee has deepened the comprehensive and strict management of the party, made a breakthrough from the formulation and implementation of the eight central regulations, put forward and implemented the general requirements for party building in the new era, guided all the work of party building with the party’s political construction, persisted in the ideological and institutional efforts to build the party, made serious political life within the party, continued to carry out centralized education within the party, and rectified the "four winds". Punishing corruption and opposing privileged thoughts and phenomena have stopped some unhealthy trends that have not stopped for a long time, corrected some stubborn diseases that have not been eliminated for many years, and found the second answer of self-revolution, which jumped out of the historical cycle rate of controlling the rise and fall of chaos. The Party’s abilities of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement have been significantly enhanced, and the inner-party political ecology with a clean atmosphere has been continuously formed and developed.
Strictly administering the party in an all-round way is the great practice of the party’s self-revolution in the new era. In this self-revolution, it is of great significance to strengthen theoretical arms and strengthen ideals and beliefs. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "leading cadres, especially senior cadres, should take the systematic mastery of the basic theory of Marxism as their housekeeping skill" and "it is always the foundation for communist party people to settle down and live".
The firmness of ideals and beliefs comes from the firmness of ideological theory. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has incorporated the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party into the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, promoted the building of a clean and honest party style and the anti-corruption struggle with unprecedented courage and determination, and made historic and groundbreaking achievements in the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party, which has had an all-round and deep-seated impact. These vivid practices show that improving the "housekeeping skills" to supplement the spiritual calcium is the ideological foundation to resist corruption and change, and to ensure that the Party will never deteriorate, change color and taste, and it is also an important ideological guarantee for party member cadres to transform the subjective world and carry out a great struggle with many new historical characteristics in the new era.
Consolidate the ideological cornerstone of transforming the subjective world in the new era
At present, the important task of theoretical armed forces is to use the latest achievement of Marxism China modernization — — Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought, the supreme leader in the new era, educates the whole party and further enhances its consciousness and initiative in transforming the subjective world.
First of all, this is the need to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Socialism with Chinese characteristics not only adheres to the basic principles of scientific socialism, but also endows it with distinctive China characteristics according to the conditions of the times, which is the only way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Whether Socialism with Chinese characteristics can strengthen his road confidence, theoretical confidence, institutional confidence and cultural confidence is related to the future and destiny of the cause of the party and the country. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The fundamental reason why some of our comrades have dim ideals and wavered in their beliefs is that their views on historical materialism are not firm. It is necessary to educate and guide the vast number of party member and cadres to unify the practice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s common ideal and the firm communist ideal, so as to be pious, persistent, trustworthy and profound. " Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era has made profound thinking and scientific judgment on what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics to stick to and develop in the new era and how to stick to and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s major issues in the new era. Its world outlook and methodology, as well as the standpoint and viewpoint methods running through it, are important ideological guidance for improving the party’s consciousness and initiative in transforming the subjective world, further strengthening its ideals and beliefs, and mastering scientific leadership methods, thinking methods and working methods.
Secondly, this is the need to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization. Building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is a great and arduous undertaking. At present, the world’s great changes that have never happened in a century have accelerated its evolution, global problems have intensified, and the world has entered a new period of turmoil and change. China’s reform, development and stability are faced with many deep-seated contradictions, which cannot be avoided. China’s development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist and uncertainties and unpredictable factors increase. How to coordinate the overall situation at home and abroad, and constantly promote and expand Chinese-style modernization in comprehensively deepening reform and opening up requires planning, layout and promotion with a higher strategic vision and deeper strategic thinking. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era profoundly reveals the China characteristics, essential requirements and major principles of Chinese modernization, which is an important ideological basis for improving the consciousness and initiative of the whole party to transform the subjective world, further subliming historical consciousness, strengthening historical self-confidence, grasping historical initiative, and promoting and expanding Chinese modernization.
Finally, this is a sober and firm need to solve the unique problems of the big party. The key to China’s success lies in the Party. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the largest Marxist ruling party in the world, and the "four major tests" and "four dangers" faced by the party will still exist for a long time. How to continue to take the new road of catching up for the exam requires a new mental state, a new development atmosphere and a new practice. Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought, the supreme leader in the new era, made profound thoughts and scientific judgments on the major issues of the new era, such as what kind of long-term ruling Marxist political party to build and how to build it, and profoundly explained the goals, tasks, ways and means of party building in the new era, which is an important ideological guide for further deepening the understanding of communist party’s ruling law, socialist construction law and human social development law and solving the unique problems of big parties.
The development of human society is a historical process from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. There is no end to transforming the objective world and the subjective world. Leading the great social revolution with the party’s self-revolution is an important experience of comprehensively administering the party strictly since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. March on that new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people can only carry forward the spirit of struggle, enhance their fighting skills, seize strategic opportunities, cope with risks and challenges, open up new opportunities in the changing situation, win the initiative, win advantages and win the future by consciously transforming the subjective world with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, strengthening their ideals and beliefs, enhancing their ideological realm and strengthening party spirit.