Promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China.
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "We must promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China and build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power". The reporter interviewed experts and scholars on issues related to promoting the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China.
Liu Zhiming, a researcher at the Marxist Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences:
Constantly innovate and develop Marxism
It is of great significance to promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China. First, it is conducive to maintaining the vitality of Marxism forever. Marxism is a scientific truth and must be adhered to, which is basic common sense. However, Marxism must also develop and keep pace with the times. To develop Marxism, we must closely follow the national conditions of China and the reality of China. Marxism and its development, the people can’t be absent, and they can’t be bystanders. Marxism must go to the masses, its development must be rooted in the masses, and it must draw wisdom and nutrition from the masses. Only when it is mastered by the overwhelming majority of the people can it give full play to its function of guiding people’s practice and transforming the world. Therefore, Marxism must be China, modernized and popularized.
Second, it is conducive to building a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power in the new era. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which is a new historical orientation of China’s reform and development. The new orientation makes the development of the party and the country face new situations, new problems and new tasks. These new situations, new problems and new tasks urgently need to promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China, so as to make Marxism in China in the 21st century show stronger and more convincing truth power.
Third, it is conducive to adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s new practice under the guidance of developing Marxism in the new era. Promoting the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China will not only innovate and develop Marxism, but also enable the people to grasp the new achievements of Marxist development, and internally implement the requirement of guiding practice with developing Marxism, which will provide a good guarantee for the cause of the party and the state to move from victory to victory.
To promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China, the new tasks for us are as follows. First, strengthen the study of Marxist theory and strive to master Marxist housekeeping skills. The second is to grasp the new changes in the national conditions, the party’s situation and the world’s situation in a timely manner, and grasp the new requirements put forward by the development of the times for the cause of the party and the state. Third, we should organize the broad masses of cadres and masses to seriously study the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, arm their minds, lead practice and guide their work with Marxism in contemporary China, so as to better push forward the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The new requirements for us to promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China mainly include the following points. First, we should firmly establish our belief in Marxism, systematically and deeply study Marxist theory, consciously guide our academic research with Marxist standpoints and methods, and strive to solve the problem of learning, understanding, believing and using. Second, it is necessary to go deep into the grass-roots units, conduct in-depth and down-to-earth research on national conditions, and possess and master a large number of first-hand materials on the changes of national conditions, world conditions and party conditions. Third, we must establish a world perspective, strive to grasp the general trend of world development, and grasp the new situations and new problems arising from the development and changes of world themes. Fourth, we should implement the basic requirements of learning for the people, go deep into the masses, try to understand their thoughts and hopes, and establish the main direction of our own learning.
To promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China, it is very important to achieve the following three points. First, we should base ourselves on China’s reality, take what we are doing as the center, listen to people’s voices, respond to practical needs, thoroughly sum up Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s practice, and better integrate the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of contemporary China. At the same time, we should broaden our horizons, absorb all beneficial achievements of human civilization, and constantly innovate and develop Marxism. Second, based on the characteristics of the times, we should promote the modernization of Marxism, make better use of Marxism to observe, interpret and lead the times, truly understand the issues facing the times, and profoundly grasp the context and trend of world history. Third, we must persist in arming the minds of party member and cadres with Marxism and its innovative achievements in China theory, gather our hearts together, strengthen the Marxist belief and communist ideal of the whole party, constantly improve the theoretical thinking ability and ideological and political level of the whole party, especially leading cadres, and constantly improve the whole party, especially leading cadres, to grasp a series of major problems facing future development with a broader vision and a longer-term vision, and use Marxism to analyze and solve practical problems. And the ability to cope with major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major obstacles and solve major contradictions, so that the whole party has always maintained a unified mind, firm will and strong combat effectiveness.
Professor Jiang Xiyong, School of Marxism, South-Central University for Nationalities:
Promote the sound and rapid development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
In the historical stage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics entering a new era, it is of great significance to promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China. On the one hand, China, modernization and popularization is the most correct and fundamentally legal way for Marxism to appear in contemporary China. According to the historical experience of China’s revolution, construction, reform and all-round deepening reform, Marxism can only be truly spread, applied, developed and innovated in China through the modernization and popularization of China, become a theoretical weapon for arming the mind to transform the world, undertake the historical mission of transforming China, and maintain the nature, spirit and vitality of Marxism forever; According to the historical experience and lessons of Marxism in the West, only by taking the road of China, modernization and popularization can Marxism truly persist in practicing the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat and the ideal spirit of communism, and avoid being lost in the materialized illusion of contemporary capitalism (including science and technology), compromise with reality and capitalists, get rid of the proletariat and the working masses, and forget the "initial heart" of Marxism communism. On the other hand, only by continuing to promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China can we truly uphold, develop, improve and expand the socialist cause in China. The course of spreading Marxism in China for a hundred years shows that socialism has always coexisted with Marxism, Marxism is the "soul" and socialism is its "spirit", which are the premise basis of each other.The two words also fundamentally define each other and have the same connotation. Under any historical conditions, the so-called "Do not forget your initiative mind", "True Persistence" and "Sincere Persistence" are only when socialism and Marxism are put together in theory and unified in practice.
Therefore, the truly legal, reasonable and correct study of Marxism is bound to follow the academic road of China’s modernization and popularization, insist on in-depth summary, carding and generalization, and enhance the theoretical connotation and logic of China Road, China’s experience and China’s wisdom, and deeply understand the historical and realistic logic of China and the world, times and technology, and mankind and the future with the standpoint and method of Marxism and its China. Sincerely help the Communist Party of China (CPC) to create a new form of Marxist theory that truly reflects the reality of human society and the development of China in the 21st century, and create a way that people of all countries, especially those in the West, love and enjoy, and spread China-oriented Marxism to all ethnic groups and countries in the world. At present, the most important thing is to understand the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era.
The practice of continuing to promote the modernization and popularization of Marxism in China is concrete in history. It should be problem-oriented, proceed from the actual situation of current social development and the needs and aspirations of the people, truly strengthen the socialist direction and communist ideal, and make its "China characteristics" more distinctive and heavy Marxist connotation and communist color in the process of promoting the comprehensive and deepening reform of socialism. Firmly promote social fairness, justice, democracy and legal system with real revolutionary spirit, so that the overwhelming majority of workers, peasants and other working people can truly feel and enjoy the superiority of the socialist system in both material and spiritual aspects. At the same time, we should create a more solid social and cultural environment, so that people’s creativity can be brought into full play, and endless social new things can be created, taking it as the starting point and pushing hand, so as to promote our cause to change with each passing day and promote the sound and rapid development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Professor Zhu Rongying, School of Marxism, Henan University:
Fully highlight the inherent charm and value of the times of Marxist theory.
Marxist theory is an open, practical and developing innovation system. Based on the needs of social practice, it is its essential attribute and inherent meaning to promote its popularization and modernization in China. From the perspective of the overall development of human civilization, the development history of Marxism is an innovative history in which Marxist theory keeps pace with the times, while from the perspective of China’s ideological and cultural development, the development history of Marxism is actually a history in which the basic principles of Marxism are constantly combined with the reality of China’s revolution and construction, and it is also an innovative history in which Marxist theory is constantly China, modernized, popularized and dialectically integrated. Realizing China, modernization and popularization is the scientific path and inevitable choice for the critical inheritance and rich development of Marxist theory, the basic demand and urgent need for constantly opening up a new realm and situation of Marxist theory in practice, and the realistic need for the Marxist theoretical system to scientifically guide Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s construction and continuously achieve brilliant achievements.
Chinese contemporary scholars deeply study the Marxist concept of innovation from multi-perspectives, multi-disciplines, all-directions and wide fields, build and develop the contemporary form and innovation system of Marxist theory as a whole, pay close attention to and focus on the ways to realize the China, modernization and popularization of Marxist theory and the direction of China, and build a contemporary logic and display platform for Marxism to "think into life" and lead the times theoretically. It can be described as ambitious, well-conceived, fully demonstrated and deeply analyzed. It not only has a broad and powerful research strength and depth, but also has a great impact on the ideological and factual fields, greatly expanding the logical level and space-time field of Marxism’s integration into practice in contemporary China. Some scholars have systematically summarized, carefully combed, reasonably anticipated and expected the Chinese-style innovative expression of Marxism from several aspects, some have strengthened the realistic pertinence and theoretical timeliness of Marxist theoretical research from the internal origin, and some have clarified their thinking, clarified the status quo, accumulated experience, deepened their understanding and promoted research, providing more thinking development space and spiritual production capacity, and consolidated the cultural heritage of Marxist comprehensive innovation.
In fact, in contemporary China, Marxism, as our common theoretical basis and action guide, has strong vitality, appeal, criticism and cohesion, which is manifested in its thorough scientificity, distinctive class nature, conscious practicality and strong revolution. It is an open theory that combines scientificity, class nature and revolution on the basis of practice, and it can realize China, modernization and popularization. It is because it has always maintained the theoretical quality of keeping pace with the times, because it can be constantly innovated, surpassed and developed, and because it is the scientific discovery and reasonable solution of the major theoretical problems that are constantly generated by the deep promotion of the great reform era in which we live.
In contemporary academic circles, the research on the innovation of Marxist theory has become increasingly clear, and the times have endowed colleagues in contemporary academic circles with the solemn mission and sacred duty to initiate the research on Marxist theory and its integration mechanism of China, modernization and popularization, and to seriously solve all kinds of complex backgrounds and key problems faced by Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s construction theoretically and practically. In the context of globalization, to create a new situation in the development of world socialism in an all-round way and to enhance the new realm of the future development of world Marxism, it is necessary to conduct innovative discussions on the China, modernization, popularization and integration mechanism of Marxism, and to explore as many new problem areas and theoretical growth points of comprehensive innovation of Marxist theory as possible, so as to fully highlight the inherent charm and value of Marxist theory. This paper systematically explains the core points and essential features of comprehensive innovation of Marxism, tries to show the theoretical charm and practical character of Marxist scientific truth, strives to sublimate practical problems into rational ones, realizes the unity of theoretical rationality and practical rationality, and flexibly uses the integration mechanism of China, modernization and popularization of Marxism to actively create new contemporary semantics for it. (Reporter Pan Yifei)