Hou Yanshe.
In-depth study and implementation of the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era].
In order for any culture to stand and go far, to have leadership, cohesion, shaping and radiation, it must have its own subjectivity. China's cultural subjectivity in the new era is the initiative, initiative, and creativity embodied in the cultural activities of the people under the leadership of the Party, which is embodied in the recognition, consciousness, and self-confidence of China's excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture. **The general secretary pointed out: "After long-term efforts, we are more qualified than any previous era to solve the 'ancient and modern Chinese and Western disputes', and we are more urgent than any previous era to have a batch of cultural achievements that fuse the ancient and modern and connect China and the West." We must adhere to the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, inherit and develop the excellent traditional Chinese culture, promote the localization of foreign culture, and constantly cultivate and create a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era. This incisive exposition provides a fundamental basis for us to further consolidate cultural subjectivity. To consolidate cultural subjectivity in the new era, we should focus on handling the following important relationships.
From the perspective of the fundamental path, handle the relationship between the soul vein and the root vein.
Proceeding from the concept of history, the general secretary creatively put forward the important thesis of "two combinations", scientifically expounded the possibility, reality and extreme importance of combining Marxism with China's excellent traditional culture, incisively expounded the internal relationship between the soul of Marxism and the root of China's excellent traditional culture, and emphasized that "the major proposition of Sinicization and modernization of Marxism itself determines that we must not abandon the soul of Marxism and the root of China's excellent traditional culture." Sticking to this soul and root is the foundation and premise of theoretical innovation, and theoretical innovation is also aimed at better adhering to this soul and root." This important exposition clarifies the basic principles of correctly handling the relationship between the soul and the root, and points out the fundamental path for consolidating cultural subjectivity in the new era.
Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for building the party and the country, and is also the guiding ideology for us to further consolidate the cultural subjectivity. "Since the Chinese learned Marxism-Leninism, the Chinese have spiritually shifted from passive to active" and independently created the modern history of their own culture and civilization. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is broad and profound, contains very valuable cultural elements, and is highly compatible with the values of scientific socialism, so it can penetrate and achieve each other in the process of organic integration with Marxism, continuously promote the continuous construction and improvement of cultural subjectivity, and provide strong intellectual support and spiritual strength for the Chinese nation to usher in the great leap from standing up, getting rich to becoming strong.
In the long-term process of constantly integrating the soul of Marxism with the root of China's excellent traditional culture, it has created a new cultural life form that is organically unified. On the one hand, Marxism has activated the genes of Chinese civilization with the light of truth and promoted the renewal and modern transformation of Chinese culture. On the other hand, the excellent traditional Chinese culture has enriched the cultural life of Marxism and promoted Marxism to increasingly show a distinctive style of sinicization and nationalization. The organic combination of soul and root has consolidated cultural subjectivity, and the creation of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is the most powerful embodiment of this cultural subjectivity. With this cultural subjectivity, the Chinese nation has a solid cultural foundation, distinctive cultural characteristics, and a powerful cultural force that leads the times.
From the perspective of the main body, it is necessary to properly handle the relationship between the party's leadership and the people's main body.
**The general secretary pointed out: "The achievements of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism are the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the party and the people. "The Communist Party of China is the leading force in promoting the Sinicization of Marxism and the construction of a new culture of the Chinese nation, and the broad masses of the people play a major role in cultural construction. To consolidate the subjectivity of culture, it is necessary to uphold the unity of the party's leadership and the people's main body, and properly handle the relationship between the leading force and the main force in cultural construction.
Upholding the party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for consolidating cultural subjectivity. The Communist Party of China is not only a firm believer and practitioner of Marxism, but also a faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture. As the highest political leading force, the Party should firmly grasp the leadership in the construction of cultural subjectivity, base itself on the forefront of the development of the times, accurately understand and grasp the laws and trends of cultural development, transform its own cultural consciousness into the broad cultural self-confidence of the people, fully mobilize the main role of the broad masses of the people in cultural innovation and creation, and form a two-way promotion mechanism of cultural consciousness and practical initiative in the practice of Chinese-style modernization.
Giving play to the role of the people as the main body is an important way to consolidate the subjectivity of culture. **The general secretary emphasized: "It is necessary to take meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the people as the starting point and end point of literary and artistic work, regard the people as the main body of literary and artistic expression, regard the people as connoisseurs and judges of literary and artistic aesthetics, and regard serving the people as the duty of literary and artistic workers." "The masses of the people are the main body of practice in cultural construction, and they are also the enjoyers and judges of cultural achievements. The innovative development of culture is carried out along with the material production practice activities of the people; The historical initiative of the masses is the endogenous driving force for promoting cultural construction and consolidating cultural subjectivity.
To further consolidate the subjectivity of culture in the new era, we must take a clear-cut stand and uphold the party's leadership over cultural work, give full play to the initiative of the people, fully stimulate all the driving forces for creating advanced culture, let all the sources of creating advantageous cultural products fully flow, and continue to enhance the autonomy, initiative and creativity of cultural leadership and practical main force in vigorously promoting the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.
From the perspective of time, we should handle the relationship between traditional culture and modern culture.
For a long time, there have been two erroneous tendencies in the treatment of traditional Chinese culture: one is the tendency of cultural conservatism, which is a comprehensive affirmation of traditional Chinese culture, thus moving towards all kinds of "cultural retroism"; One is the tendency of cultural nihilism, which completely negates traditional Chinese culture and moves towards various forms of "total Westernization". Our party advocates treating traditional Chinese culture historically and dialectically, and has put forward ideas and principles for scientifically answering the "dispute between the past and the present" such as "using the past for the present", "making a dialectical trade-off", and "bringing forth the new through the old". **The general secretary pointed out: "The 'second combination' is another emancipation of the mind, which allows us to make full use of the precious resources of China's excellent traditional culture in a broader cultural space and explore future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations." One of the great significance of the "second combination" lies in liberating our ideological understanding of Chinese culture and civilization from the erroneous and dogmatic understanding of the opposition between traditional culture and modern culture, and bringing about a new great awakening of our party and nation on Chinese civilization.
Only by basing ourselves on the magnificent history of Chinese civilization of more than 5,000 years can we truly understand the historical inevitability, cultural connotation and unique advantages of China's path. The general secretary proposed: "If there is no Chinese civilization of 5,000 years, what are the Chinese characteristics?" If it were not for Chinese characteristics, how could we have such a successful path of socialism with Chinese characteristics today? We should pay special attention to tapping the essence of China's 5,000-year-old civilization, combine the promotion of excellent traditional culture with the Marxist standpoint, viewpoint, and method, and unswervingly follow the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. "The excellent traditional Chinese culture has a long history, broad and profound, and has shaped the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization, such as continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, and peace, and has irreplaceable and important value. Because Chen Chen Xiang can't talk about inheritance, cutting off the bloodline and creating out of thin air cannot be regarded as innovation. To consolidate the subjectivity of Chinese culture in the new era, it is necessary to take Chinese-style modernization as the direction and the "two combinations" as the guide, continuously promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, guide it to actively adapt to the practical needs of Chinese-style modernization, and highlight cultural subjectivity with its Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style.
From the perspective of space, the relationship between Chinese culture and world culture should be properly handled.
**The general secretary pointed out: "The broad atmosphere of Chinese civilization has benefited from the open attitude and inclusive mind of Chinese culture since ancient times. To uphold openness and inclusiveness is to be more proactive in learning from all the outstanding achievements of civilization created by mankind. This important exposition enlightens us that properly handling the relationship between the original and the outside world and realizing the benign interaction between Chinese culture and world culture is an important path to consolidate cultural subjectivity in the context of the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world unseen in a century.
The Chinese civilization is an open system formed through continuous exchanges and mutual learning with other civilizations. From the eastward spread of Buddhism in history, to the introduction of Marxism and socialist thought into China in modern times, the subjectivity of Chinese culture has been constructed and established in an eclectic manner. **The general secretary pointed out: "Emphasizing national character is not to exclude the academic research achievements of other countries, but to make national character more in line with the development requirements of contemporary China and the world today on the basis of comparison, comparison, criticism, absorption, and sublimation. "We must fully absorb the beneficial elements of the cultures of all countries in the world, transform them into an organic part of our culture, and continue to develop and expand cultural autonomy, initiative, adaptability and creativity.
If we solve national problems well, we will have a stronger ability to solve world problems; If we sum up China's practice well, we will have a stronger ability to provide ideas and methods for solving world problems. "While actively absorbing all the beneficial achievements of human civilization, we should also pay attention to giving full play to the international influence and leading force of Chinese culture. To this end, we should pay attention to extracting and sublimating the way of thinking, values, spiritual character and knowledge system of universal significance to deal with the common cultural problems of human society from China's path, Chinese experience, Chinese wisdom and Chinese plan, so as to make due contributions to promoting the common values of all mankind and actively promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
From the perspective of the first dimension, handle the relationship between integrity and innovation.
In the long-term cultural practice, our party has gradually formed a way of keeping the right and innovating. The general secretary emphasized that "for cultural construction, only by keeping integrity can we not lose ourselves and not lose our direction, and only by innovating can we grasp the times and lead the times." This important exposition has pointed out the direction for us to continuously strengthen cultural subjectivity and enhance cultural self-confidence under the complex domestic and international situation.
To consolidate cultural subjectivity, we must adhere to the dominant position and correct direction of Chinese culture. The first is to adhere to the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the ideological field, adhere to the guidance of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, adhere to the commanding heights of truth and morality, and maintain the scientific and people's nature of culture. Second, it is necessary to adhere to the fundamental requirement of the "two combinations," integrate the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, and constantly build a solid foundation for the road and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. The third is to adhere to the party's cultural leadership, adhere to the party's leading position in the construction of cultural subjectivity, and ensure the correct direction of cultural construction.
To consolidate the subjectivity of culture, it is necessary to continuously enrich the new content, new form and new discourse of culture through comprehensive innovation. Under the guidance of Marxism, we must truly use the past for the present and the foreign for China, make dialectical trade-offs, and bring forth the new, so as to realize the organic connection between tradition and modernity. On the new journey, we must continue to promote the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and constantly promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture to achieve new results; In the systematic project of cultivating and practicing the core socialist values, we will further consolidate the foundation of the values of the country, society and citizens; Continuously enhance the spiritual strength of the people in the social project of continuously promoting the ideological and moral construction of citizens; In the development and expansion of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, we will further meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people; In the process of cultural exchanges and mutual learning with other countries around the world, we will continuously enhance the international influence and dissemination of Chinese culture. In short, it is necessary to consolidate the cultural subjectivity with the righteousness and vigor of upholding integrity and innovation, and create a new culture belonging to our era and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation in the great process of continuing the historical context and writing a contemporary chapter.
Author: Hou Yanshe, professor at the School of Marxism, Chinese University of China, researcher of the Contemporary Political Party Research Platform).