A profound summary of the historical experience of Marxism's localization and modernization in China
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The "second combination" enables the tree of Marxist truth to take root in the fertile soil of China's excellent traditional culture, expands the cultural foundation of the socialist road with Chinese characteristics, endows Chinese path to modernization with profound details, and realizes another ideological liberation. It is a profound summary of the historical experience of Marxism's sinicization and modernization, and a profound grasp of the development law of Chinese civilization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development: "The'second combination' is our party's profound summary of the historical experience of the modernization of Marxism in China, and a profound grasp of the law of the development of Chinese civilization". The important exposition of General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly clarified the great significance of the "second combination" in advancing the modernization of Marxism in China and building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. We must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, continue to expand the cultural foundation of the socialist road with Chinese characteristics, and continue to make original contributions to the enrichment and development of Marxism.
Expanding the Cultural Foundation of the Path of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "To open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the deep foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture is the only way to go. This is the understanding of regularity that we have drawn in our exploration of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the greatest magic weapon for our success." Among them, the "second combination" makes the tree of Marxist truth rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and plays an important role in promoting the dialectical unity of the theoretical logic of scientific socialism and the historical logic of Chinese social development, and expands the cultural foundation of the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Culture is the soul of a country or a nation, and cultural confidence is the most fundamental, profound, and enduring force in the development of a country or a nation. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the "root" of our party's innovative theory and our deepest cultural soft power. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has grown and grown in the only uninterrupted soil of civilization in the world, and has been opened up and developed on the profound historical accumulation of Chinese civilization. The excellent traditional Chinese culture has provided a rich cultural fertile ground for the emergence and development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Only by standing on the magnificent history of Chinese civilization can we truly understand the historical inevitability, cultural connotations, and unique advantages of China's path. Clearly proposing, emphasizing, and consciously promoting the "second combination" reflects the regularity of our party's understanding in exploring the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, indicating that our party's understanding of the Chinese path, theory, and system has reached a new height.
Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for building the Party and the country, as well as promoting the Party and the country. It is a constantly developing and open theory that must be Sinicized in order to take root, and modernized in order to be full of vitality. Marxism has profoundly changed China, and China has also greatly enriched Marxism. Our party's great enrichment of Marxism is achieved through the fundamental approach of "two combinations". The combination has solidified the foundation of the road, given a broader and more profound historical depth to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and expanded the cultural foundation of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Among them, the "second combination" provides a profound cultural foundation for the sinicization, modernization, Marxism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. The combination of the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture is not a "transplantation" or "grafting", but a high degree of compatibility with the scientific socialist values advocated by the cosmology, worldview, social view, and moral view contained in the excellent traditional Chinese culture. It is in the process of promoting the "second combination" that our party has activated the great civilization created by the Chinese nation over thousands of years with the power of Marxist truth. Our party's historical and cultural confidence has reached a new height, and its consciousness in promoting cultural innovation in inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture has reached a new height.
Give Chinese path to modernization a deep foundation
It is a modernization that has grown from the land of China, not simply copying the modernization of other countries; It is the result of civilization renewal, not the product of civilization rupture. It is with the "second combination" that Chinese civilization endows Chinese path to modernization with profound connotation.
Chinese path to modernization is a socialist modernization led by the CPC. In the process of leading and promoting Chinese path to modernization, our party adheres to Marxism as the fundamental guiding ideology, adheres to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality, and combines with China's excellent traditional culture, constantly promotes the modernization of Marxism in China, and provides scientific guidance for Chinese path to modernization. The "second combination" makes Marxism become Chinese, Chinese excellent traditional culture become modern, and the new culture formed through the "combination" become the cultural form of Chinese path to modernization, giving Chinese path to modernization a deep foundation. For example, Chinese path to modernization is a modernization with a huge population, which contains the social ideal that the world is public and the world is the same; Chinese path to modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all people. It is committed to making the achievements of modernization more and more equitable to benefit all people. It contains the governance thought of people as the foundation of the country and politics as morality; Chinese path to modernization is the modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization. It emphasizes that material wealth and spiritual wealth are the fundamental requirements of socialist modernization, and contains the spiritual pursuit of being virtuous and carrying things forward; Chinese path to modernization is a modernization in which man and nature coexist in harmony. It unswervingly follows the path of civilized development featuring development in production, prosperity in life and good ecology. It contains the excellent traditional ecological culture of China, which combines man and nature and cultivates all things at the same time; Chinese path to modernization is a modernization that follows the path of peaceful development. It always holds high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win results, seeks its own development in the firm maintenance of world peace and development, and better maintains world peace and development with its own development. It contains a way of communication that is faithful, friendly and good neighborly. Chinese path to modernization is deeply rooted in China's excellent traditional culture, fully explores the extensive and profound resources of Chinese civilization, takes the socialist core values as the guide, develops advanced socialist culture, carries forward revolutionary culture, inherits China's excellent traditional culture, and shows a new cultural form different from western modern culture.
In the process of "the second combination", Chinese path to modernization has taken a road of modernization that is not only self reliant in political system but also in ideology and culture, and will never be dependent on the West. It has set a model for developing countries to move towards modernization independently and provides new choices. It is a major innovation in the theory and practice of world modernization.
Once again achieved ideological liberation
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The'second combination' is another emancipation of the mind, allowing us to make full use of the precious resources of Chinese excellent traditional culture in a broader cultural space to explore future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations." The "second combination" is clearly put forward, which further expands and deepens our party's understanding of the regularity of the modernization of Marxism in China, which is of great significance in the history of the party's theoretical exploration.
In the process of sinicization and modernization of Marxism, there have been multiple instances of ideological liberation in the history of our party's theoretical exploration. Each ideological liberation has broken the ideological constraints that hinder the development of the party and the state, promoted breakthroughs in ideological concepts, updated ways of thinking, and opened up new prospects for the development of the party and the state. The "second combination" is another ideological liberation, which not only further expands the fundamental path for the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, but also deepens our party's understanding of the relationship between Marxism and excellent traditional Chinese culture. It enables us to grasp the initiative of ideology and culture, and effectively apply it to the path, theory, and system. Moreover, it allows us to fully utilize the precious resources of excellent traditional Chinese culture in a broader cultural space, explore future oriented theoretical and institutional innovation.
The development of human society is the unity of continuity and stages, while the development of ideology and culture is the unity of inheritance and innovation. When dealing with traditional culture, we should neither stick to the old ways nor completely negate them. Instead, we should liberate our minds under the guidance of scientific theories, distinguish and develop traditional culture in a broader cultural space, and discover and inherit the beneficial components that transcend time and space and are constantly new, providing rich cultural resources for exploring future oriented theoretical and institutional innovation. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the wisdom crystallization and essence of the Chinese civilization, the root and soul of the Chinese nation, and the foundation for us to stand firm in the world culture turmoil. People of the CPC are firm believers and practitioners of Marxism, as well as faithful inheritors and promoters of China's excellent traditional culture. In the process of promoting the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, our party always adheres to the guidance of Marxist scientific theory, inherits and promotes excellent traditional Chinese culture with a scientific attitude, strives to use all the spiritual wealth created by the Chinese nation to educate people with culture and culture, and fully utilizes the precious resources of excellent traditional Chinese culture to promote theoretical and institutional innovation.
In the process of promoting the "second combination", the CPC people have constantly emancipated their minds, integrated the excellent traditional Chinese culture into the broad space of Chinese path to modernization theory and institutional innovation, and provided rich cultural resources and strong spiritual impetus for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country and the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
It is the solemn historical responsibility of the contemporary CPC people to constantly write a new chapter of the sinicization and modernization of Marxism. On the new journey, we will continue to link the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of China's excellent traditional culture, and integrate with the common values that the people are unaware of. We will not only learn the concept and thinking of governance from China's excellent traditional culture, but also use Marxism to guide the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture in the contemporary era, so that the sinicized and contemporary Marxism has more distinctive Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style.
