Draw theoretical innovation wisdom from people’s creation.
Author: He Junming and Sun Huayu (both are special researchers of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of Fujian Province, and professors of Marxism College of Xiamen University of Technology).
When presiding over the sixth collective study in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that "we should pay attention to drawing theoretical innovation wisdom from the creation of the masses". If a society wants to be prosperous and full of vigor and vitality, it must constantly carry out theoretical innovation. People’s nature is the essential attribute of Marxism. The Party’s theory comes from the people, for the people and for the benefit of the people. The people’s creative practice is an inexhaustible source of theoretical innovation. The important exposition of the Supreme Leader General Secretary adheres to the Marxist historical materialism and the standpoint of people first, which clarifies the source of the party’s theoretical innovation and provides a fundamental follow-up for constantly writing a new chapter in the modernization of Marxism in China.
The people are the creators of history.
Marx and Engels systematically thought about the relationship between man and history, holding that the primary premise of human history is "the existence of living individuals", and pointed out that history is the history of living people in material form, not the history of spirit or will. Social existence determines social consciousness and mode of production determines social development, which is the basic viewpoint of Marxist historical materialism. Material production activities are the basic conditions of all history, and all social life is practical in essence. Marx clearly pointed out in the Manuscript of Economics and Philosophy in 1844 that history "is nothing more than a process in which people are born through human labor, and it is a process in which nature generates for people". Man creates history through his own practical activities, and social history is composed of his practical activities, and man is the real subject of social history.
The people are the creators of material wealth and spiritual wealth. Marxist historical materialism holds that people’s practical activities not only create an objective material world, but also create a rich spiritual world. The people are the creators of material wealth. Material production is the premise of all history. Without certain material production, there can be no human history. The material materials needed for human survival and development are produced by the broad masses of the people. As the main body of material production activities, the people constantly accumulate production experience in practice, innovate and create production technologies, and promote the development of productive forces and the growth of social material wealth. The people are also creators of spiritual wealth. Social existence determines social consciousness, which is a reflection of social existence. The production practice of the people provides a material basis for the creation of spiritual wealth, and all spiritual wealth is rooted in the practical activities of the people.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The people are the driving force to create history, and we communist party people should never forget this most basic truth of historical materialism." Productivity is the fundamental driving force for the development of human society. The contradictory movement between productivity and production relations promotes the continuous development of human society, and the people are the most active factors for the transformation of productivity. The people’s subjective practical activities constitute the foundation of social life, and all social changes are based on this foundation. While creating material wealth and spiritual wealth, the people also create and transform social relations of production. Any social change cannot be separated from the people’s active participation and the people’s enthusiasm and initiative. Marx and Engels pointed out that "historical activities are the activities of the masses, and with the deepening of historical activities, it will certainly expand the ranks of the masses." Although heroes also play an important role in historical development and change, social change ultimately depends on the will, wishes and interests of the broad masses of the people. From the perspective of historical materialism, only the people are the real creators of history and the fundamental driving force for social change and social reform and development.
2. People’s creative practice is an inexhaustible source of theoretical innovation.
Great times need great theories. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Resolution on the Great Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Centennial Struggle takes "persisting in theoretical innovation" as one of the historical experiences of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s Centennial Struggle, and points out: "As long as we are brave enough to combine new practices and constantly promote theoretical innovation and be good at guiding new practices with new theories, we will certainly be able to show Marxism a stronger and more convincing truth force on the land of China." The reason why our party can make great achievements in various historical periods lies in mastering Marxist scientific theory and constantly promoting theoretical innovation in combination with new realities. We should constantly deepen our understanding of the regularity of the party’s theoretical innovation and achieve more fruitful theoretical innovation results in the new era and new journey.
Marxist historical materialism points out that theory is a rational social consciousness, and theoretical innovation is the need of the unity of social existence and social consciousness, which cannot be divorced from the objective law that social existence determines social consciousness and social consciousness reacts on social existence. On the basis of material production and spiritual production, people’s understanding of truth is refined and summed up in the cycle from sensibility to rationality to practice. Theoretical innovation must be based on social practice, and the main body of practice is the people. Marxism defines the people’s dominant position in social production practice and points out the "creative" nature of the people in the process of complex social practice. Marxism is a theory that stands for the people and speaks for them. It was founded to change people’s destiny and enriched and developed in people’s practice of seeking liberation. the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a political party guided by Marxism. To promote the party’s theoretical innovation, it must be closely combined with people’s creative practice, which is an inexhaustible source of Marxist theoretical innovation.
Looking back on the history of the Party’s struggle for a hundred years, we can see that the reason why our Party has made great achievements in various historical periods of revolution, construction and reform, and has been able to lead the people to accomplish arduous tasks that other political forces in China can’t, lies in mastering Marxist scientific theory and constantly promoting theoretical innovation in light of new realities. He has made great theoretical achievements such as Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents, Scientific Outlook on Development and Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era, and has always adhered to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, seeking truth and being pragmatic, which has made Marxism glow with great vitality in China and enabled the Party to master a powerful force of truth. The party’s theoretical innovation results all come from people’s wisdom, people’s exploration and people’s creation. Adhering to the people’s supremacy is a profound summary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s valuable experience in the past 100 years and an unswerving pursuit of value, which is an important embodiment of Marxist people’s view. History has created the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the people’s exploration and struggle, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) led the people to create new historical glory. During the period of new-democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative, combined the basic principles of Marxism with China’s concrete reality, insisted on integrating theory with practice and keeping close contact with the masses, and with the strong support and sincere support of the broad masses of the people, absorbed the wisdom of the masses and relied on the strength of the people, and founded Mao Zedong Thought through hard exploration. Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out, "As long as we rely on the people,Firmly believe that the creativity of the people is endless, so trust the people and become one with them, and then any difficulties can be overcome. " In the new era of reform, opening up and socialist modernization, the Communist Party of China (CPC) people continue to rely on the creative practice of the people and lead the cause development with theoretical innovation. At the end of 1970s, the practice of "all-in-one contract" from Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province directly started the rural reform in China. The party’s major theoretical innovations all come from the people’s creative practice, which shows the people’s creative wisdom. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the people of the Communist Party of China (CPC), with the Supreme Leader as the main representative, have persisted in combining the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, scientifically answered the major issues of the times such as what kind of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and how to uphold and develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and created the Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era. The Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era is contemporary China Marxism and 21st century Marxism, and it is the essence of Chinese culture and China spirit, which has achieved a new leap in the modernization of Marxism in China.
3. To promote the theoretical innovation of the Party, we must follow the mass line.
To promote the party’s theoretical innovation, we must go deep into the people and do a good job of investigation and research. The people are the creators of history and the decisive force to promote social development and change. Investigation and research is the heirloom of our party, the foundation of seeking things and the way to achieve things. Investigation is the source of insight. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has attached great importance to investigation and research. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader took the lead in setting an example and went deep into the people. The footprints of investigation and research spread all over the country, setting a shining example for the whole party to do a good job in investigation and research. Going deep into the people to do a good job in investigation and research is the basis of continuously promoting the theoretical innovation of the Party, and it is also the practical need to keep sober and firm in solving the unique problems of the big party and answer the "six how to always". To promote the party’s theoretical innovation, we must not build a car behind closed doors, sit and talk about the road, and become a pipe dream. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed, "We should worship the people as teachers, learn from the people, put down our airs, throw ourselves down, be grounded, understand the situation, conduct in-depth investigation and study, dissect sparrows, find typical examples, truly find out the problems faced by the masses, reflect their opinions and sum up the experience created by the masses." The social practice of the masses is not only the object of our investigation and study, but also the inexhaustible source of our correct understanding. The masses not only know the actual situation best, but also contain the wisdom and strength to solve problems. Only by doing a good job of investigation and study can we continuously promote the party’s theoretical innovation.
Promoting the Party’s theoretical innovation must respect the people’s initiative. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that "we should respect the people’s initiative, pay attention to summing up fresh experiences from the people’s creative practice, upgrade to rational understanding and refine new theoretical achievements". Respecting the people’s initiative is determined by the nature and purpose of our party, which embodies the Marxist historical values. The development of society is always based on giving full play to people’s subjective initiative and respecting people’s initiative. The will, desire, requirement and practice of the people reflect the trend of social development and embody the law of social development. At present, the changes of the world, times and history are unfolding in an unprecedented way. The "two overall situations" are accelerating and interacting deeply. China’s development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist and uncertainties and unpredictable factors increase. It is even more necessary for us to persist in taking the people as the center, respect the people’s initiative, fully stimulate the creative power contained in the people, pay attention to the unity of top-level design and consultation with the people, and constantly gain new understanding from summing up the people’s creative practice.
Let the party’s innovative theory penetrate into the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress pointed out that it is necessary to "build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power" and "improve the system of arming the whole party, educating the people and guiding practice with the Party’s innovative theory". If great thoughts want generate’s great strength, they must be transformed into concrete social practice, rely on the people as the main body of social practice, and make the innovation theory consciously recognized and sincerely supported by the people, making it a powerful ideological weapon to guide the people to understand and transform the world. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed, "Insist on inner-party education to guide and drive the learning of the whole society, and let the party’s innovative theory ‘ Fly into the homes of ordinary people ’ " . Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era is contemporary China Marxism and 21st century Marxism, and it is the essence of Chinese culture and China spirit. We should persist in casting our souls with Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, carry out in-depth study, publicity and interpretation in the whole party and society, guide the broad masses of party member, cadres and the masses to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishment", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences" and achieve the "two maintenance".Consciously maintain a high degree of unity with the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core in ideological and political actions, and unite and struggle for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way. It is necessary to establish a people-centered work orientation, combine serving the people with guiding them to learn the Party’s innovative theory, grasp the theoretical concerns of the people, constantly innovate theoretical propaganda methods, and strive to make the Party’s innovative theory penetrate into the hearts of hundreds of millions of people and become a theory that is grounded, gathers people’s wisdom, conforms to the will of the people, and wins the hearts of the people, bringing together the majestic forces for building a socialist modern country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.