Deeply Understanding the Cultural Connotation of the "Second Combination" Marxism | China | Culture
In his important speech at the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "to open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the basis of more than five thousand years of Chinese civilization, it is the only way to combine the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture." "The result of 'combination' is mutual achievement, creating an organic and unified new cultural life, making Marxism Chinese, Chinese excellent traditional culture modern, and the new culture formed through 'combination' into a Chinese-style modern cultural form." These important expositions put forward the important theoretical and practical problem of how to deeply understand the cultural connotation of Marxism in China. Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture are compatible with each other and have inherent integration; Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture are integrated with each other in practice, and have unity based on practice; the "second combination" activates the vitality of Chinese excellent traditional culture At the same time, Marxism is full of vitality in the land of China, with the innovation of advancing with the times. In short, "the vitality of theory lies in innovation. Marxism has profoundly changed China, and China has greatly enriched Marxism". To deeply understand the cultural connotation of "the second combination", we should not only grasp the cultural gene of "combination", but also understand the cultural character of "combination", but also promote the cultural practice of "combination.
Cultural genes stimulate the "combination" of internal vitality
Chinese excellent traditional culture is the cultural gene of Marxism in China. The combination of the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture is the integration of the excellent genes of Chinese culture into Marxism and the continuous realization of theoretical innovation. Therefore, Sinicized Marxism can speak Chinese, highlight Chinese style and Chinese style, and shape China Discourse tells Chinese stories. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is accumulated in the hearts of the Chinese people. For thousands of years, it has formed the unique spiritual pursuit, spiritual identity and spiritual gene of the Chinese people. It is a kind of concept and force unique to the Chinese nation and dominates the words and deeds of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people. It is a collection of comprehensive reflection of the psychological characteristics, thoughts and emotions of the Chinese nation. Chinese excellent traditional culture has outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace, which imperceptibly affects the way of thinking and behavior of Chinese people. Whether the basic principles of Marxism can take root in China and promote China's development depends on whether it can adapt, integrate and achieve each other with China's original excellent traditional culture. In other words, how can a great idea from Europe take root in China, thousands of miles away, across the boundaries of time and space, and grow the greatest creation of civilization in human history in the 20th and 21st centuries? As a faithful inheritor and promoter of China's excellent traditional culture, the Party emphasizes the use of Marxist methodology to critically inherit the historical heritage and continue the spiritual bloodline of the Chinese nation.
Chinese excellent traditional culture is the cultural nourishment of the Chinese nation's endless growth and development. As a rational and scientific thought and concept, the basic principles of Marxism are integrated with Chinese excellent traditional culture. It is the ideological banner and national cultural genes. It is the integration of the political beliefs and cultural beliefs of advanced Chinese people. The two complement each other, influence each other, and integrate with each other, in the process of the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, it has continuously burst out a powerful spiritual force, and in the 21st century, it has shown the brilliance of new theoretical innovation and civilization. Chinese excellent traditional culture contains profound and rich cultural traditional genes and far-reaching historical details, which provides fertile cultural soil for the Sinicization of Marxism. It is the cultural gene and spiritual foundation for us to promote the combination of the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. In the course of more than a hundred years of leading the people of the whole country, our party has combined the basic principles of Marxism with the cultural spirit of "human heart and kindness" in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the cultural realm of "the unity of man and nature", the cultural thought of "harmony but difference", and the cultural ideal of "great harmony in the world", which confirms the cultural dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Cultural character to get through the "combination" fusion force
As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in his important speech at the cultural inheritance and development symposium: "The'second combination' is another emancipation of the mind, allowing us to make full use of the excellent traditional Chinese culture in a broader cultural space. The precious resources of China explore future-oriented theoretical and institutional innovations." For more than a hundred years, it is precisely because of the guidance of Marxist scientific theory that our party has been able to grasp the historical initiative on the basis of firm historical beliefs, create a Chinese-style modernization path, and create a new form of human civilization. The basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture have the cultural character of integration. The Communist Party of China adheres to the positions, viewpoints and methods of the basic principles of Marxism, and actively explores the era of creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Our party regards Chinese excellent traditional culture as the root and soul of the party's theoretical innovation, actively promotes the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and writes the subject of Marxist theoretical innovation on the land of China where Chinese excellent traditional culture accumulates. Our party not only grasps the reality and possibility of combining Marxism as a cultural form with Chinese excellent traditional culture in theoretical innovation, but also pays attention to the cultural character of the party's innovative theory from the cultural genes of the historical evolution of Chinese excellent traditional culture, red revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture.
To promote the formation of the cultural character of the integration of the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, it is necessary to guide the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture with the theoretical achievements that have realized the latest leap of the Sinicization of Marxism. The cultural subjectivity consolidated by the "second combination" makes an in-depth interpretation of the connotation of innovation in the era of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and continues to promote cultural innovation in the inheritance of Chinese excellent traditional culture. The inherent compatibility between the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture has been tested and confirmed by the Communist Party of China for a hundred years of struggle, creating a new culture that will be formed on the basis of practice, and demonstrating the cultural self in Chinese-style modernization.
Chinese excellent traditional culture is not only the cultural resources of the ideological form displayed in the cultural classics of the past dynasties, but also the cultural soft power of the practical form that exerts spiritual influence in the process of socialist practice with Chinese characteristics. Promote the interaction and transformation of Chinese excellent traditional cultural concepts and practical forms with the times, form a new form of Chinese civilization that is mutually coordinated with modern civilization and adapted to the practice of Chinese social development, and provide profound cultural nourishment for the path of Chinese modernization; On the premise of upholding the unique advantages of Chinese culture, actively communicate and learn from each other with the cultures of all ethnic groups in the world, and realize the self-transcendence and self-development of Chinese cultural spirit, put forward a Chinese plan to promote the future development of mankind and the progress of civilization, so that it can meet the needs of the people in pursuit of a better life.
Cultural practice to explore the "combination" of practical power
The Chinese civilization accumulated by the excellent Chinese traditional culture is the biggest historical reality faced by the Sinicization of Marxism, which, together with the realistic reality of China's economic and social development, constitutes the practical basis of Sinicized Marxist theory. The dialectics of the division and integration of Marxism and Chinese excellent traditional culture is the basic dimension to examine the deep essence of Marxism in China, and it is also the basic starting point for us to understand the dialectics of inheritance and change of Chinese civilization and socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. Chinese culture has a long history and Chinese civilization is broad and profound, showing the cultural consciousness of the Chinese nation in its unremitting struggle through suffering and glory, and the cultural confidence of the Chinese people in their national rejuvenation. The theoretical innovation of a political party is inseparable from the exchanges and collisions between different nationalities and different countries. History has proved and will prove repeatedly that the exchange and dissemination of philosophy and culture with different motives and reasons not only promote the prosperity of human culture, but also become an important lever to pry the development of human society. As Ji Xianlin said: "Cultural exchange is one of the main driving forces to promote the progress of human society." The deep reason why Marxism can integrate and surpass the excellent Chinese traditional culture and continue to be Sinicized in theoretical innovation is not only that the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent Chinese traditional culture belong to the development theory of practical philosophy, but also that it is a kind of Chinese Communist Party's pursuit of revolution and construction practice, abandoning the limitations of Chinese traditional culture in the practice of economic and social development, and then merging into the historical choice in the process of Chinese modernization, finally, the new culture formed through the "second combination" becomes the cultural form of Chinese modernization.
Every step of the exploration of the Chinese-style modernization road demonstrates the practical power of the "second combination. Using the cultural wisdom of "innovation and innovation", our party integrates cultural practice into the reform and innovation practice of governing the country in Anbang; adhering to the cultural concept of "all things are nurtured", our party has created a new form of human civilization in cultural practice; shouldering the cultural mission of "harmony with all nations", our party has led the trend of world civilization and progress with the idea of a community with a shared future for mankind. The "second combination" has laid a solid practical foundation for the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, "giving the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics a broader and far-reaching historical depth and expanding the cultural foundation of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Chinese-style modernization has given modern power to Chinese civilization, and Chinese civilization has given Chinese-style modernization a profound foundation". Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is a cultural practice form of the Chinese nation's cultural subjectivity demonstrated by the combination of the basic principles of Marxism and the excellent traditional Chinese culture. It profoundly clarifies the practice of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The law and internal mechanism provide a basic follow for the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
"Seek the elder of the wood, and you will consolidate its foundation; those who want to flow far away will dredge its source." Tracing back to the source is for better innovation and development; pursuing cultural history is for a better start. The theory of a political party only has a profound cultural heritage, in order to show its deep confidence and confidence. The historical experience of the Sinicization of Marxism shows that we must deeply understand and grasp Marxism and traditional Chinese culture as the cultural genes of our party's theoretical innovation, and deeply understand and grasp the cultural character of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Understand and grasp the unique value system of the Chinese nation that has lasted for thousands of years, deeply understand and grasp the innovative mechanism of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, so that the excellent traditional Chinese culture can be creatively transformed and innovatively developed. In the new era, we should deeply understand and grasp the cultural connotation of the "second combination", and use the theoretical innovation achievements that have realized the new leap of the Sinicization of Marxism -- Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era to guide the new practice, lead the development trend of the world with the new form of human civilization, and constantly answer the questions of China, the world, the people and the times. Constantly promote the Sinicization of Marxism, it is the dual need of Marxist theoretical innovation and practical innovation of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
