Xinhua News Review | Holding a Good Democratic Life Meeting Must Prevent Formalism Beijing | Life Meeting | Formalism
Beijing, August 26th, Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua) - To hold a good democratic life meeting, one must guard against formalism
Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Jianqiang
In recent years, the formalism issues that exist in a few local units in democratic life meetings have attracted attention, such as "only seeking to be passable, not to be strong", "using the banner of criticism and praising content", "originally full of spicy flavor, but actually being harmonious".
To avoid a perfunctory democratic life, one should face the "real situation" directly. Party members and leading cadres at all levels must strictly implement the democratic life meeting system. Before the meeting, they must comprehensively sort out problems, adhere to putting themselves, responsibilities, and work into it, deeply explore the crux of the problem, conduct in-depth analysis of Party spirit, identify the root cause of ideology, and propose targeted improvement suggestions; We should analyze typical cases on the opposite side and draw inferences from them. We should not be "empty handed", superficial, or superficial, and should not generalize to the objective.
To avoid democratic life becoming mere formality, we should advocate for "true criticism". Mutual criticism should adhere to seeking truth from facts, emphasizing party spirit rather than personal feelings, truth rather than face. We should adhere to the principles of being open minded, straightforward, and straightforward. We should not only prevent using work issues as a substitute for work style issues, team issues as a substitute for personal issues, and common issues as a substitute for specific issues, but also prevent using criticism as a pretext for flattery and disguised praise. Critics should have a magnanimous and humble demeanor that brings joy upon hearing it, allowing them to let go of their ideological baggage and dare to "speak ill of themselves" and offer harsh advice. When self-criticism, one should be practical, face problems squarely, touch on thoughts, dare to expose their shortcomings, and never turn self-criticism into self praise or mutual criticism into mutual praise.
To avoid the lack of practical results in democratic life, we should focus on real rectification. We must take the rectification of problems as an important measure to consolidate and improve the effectiveness of thematic education. Rectification measures should be formulated for the problems identified through inspection and reflection, and the goals and deadlines for rectification should be determined. The guidance group dispatched by the higher-level party organization should strictly and practically strengthen supervision and guidance, and strictly prevent entering the vicious circle of "holding democratic life meetings multiple times, repeatedly searching for problems, repeatedly rectifying problems, but still existing problems".
Only by adhering to the policy of "unity criticism unity", the Democratic Life Association can we dare to expose shortcomings and expose ugliness, use real swords and guns, see the bones and muscles, pinpoint acupoints, poke numb bones, and produce a spicy taste. Only then can we truly play the role of blushing and heartbeat, sweating and detoxifying, treating diseases and saving people, and cheering on. Strictly guard against formalism and other issues, make it a norm to face the "real situation", carry out "real criticism", and implement "real rectification", in order to make every democratic life a strict exercise in party political life, baptize the thoughts of party members and leading cadres at all levels, touch their souls, and improve their work.
