First, the socialist core value system is the essential embodiment of socialist ideology.
Human society is the organic unity of economic base and superstructure. The economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure has a dynamic reaction to the economic base. Social ideology belongs to the superstructure, which stipulates the nature and direction of the whole ideological and moral culture construction. A country, a nation and a society will inevitably form a certain value system in the long-term cognitive and practical activities, and its core value system is the core position, leading and leading role. The core value system always adapts to the basic social system and its requirements, is the essential embodiment of social ideology, and is the basic spiritual support for the operation of certain social systems and the maintenance of certain social order. If the core value system is not taken as the guidance of social unity, society will lose its soul and direction.
Building the socialist core value system is an important strategic task put forward by our party with a view to the new situation and from the overall situation of comprehensively promoting the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it has grasped the key to the construction of socialist ideology in China. Only by vigorously building the socialist core value system can we form the spiritual strength of the whole nation and the spiritual bond of unity and harmony, and ensure the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.
The guiding ideology of Marxism, the ideal of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, the national spirit with patriotism as the core, the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and the socialist concept of honor and disgrace constitute the basic contents of the socialist core value system. The basic contents of these four aspects are the essence extracted from the progress of human civilization and the rich ideological and cultural achievements formed by our party leading the people in long-term practice, and are the epitome of socialist values. Among them, the guiding ideology of Marxism is the soul, which provides a powerful ideological weapon for understanding and transforming the world and is the theoretical basis and action guide for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics; Socialism with Chinese characteristics's ideal is the theme, and it is the pursuit of the bright future development prospects of the country and the nation; The national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core are the essence and motivation to realize the ideal of * * * *; The socialist concept of honor and disgrace is the foundation, which provides all members of society with the value standard of judging the gains and losses of behavior and making moral choices. These aspects influence and interact with each other to form a unified whole, which provides the required value orientation for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is the ideological basis for uniting and mobilizing the whole party and people of all ethnic groups to strive for building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern country.
The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "The socialist core value system is the essential embodiment of socialist ideology." This paper profoundly reveals the position and function of the socialist core value system. The socialist core value system is the core content and the most important component of socialist ideology, the essential provision of the socialist system at the value level, and embodies the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of people. Socialism with Chinese characteristics, in the economic system, adheres to and develops the socialist market economy, adheres to and improves the basic economic system with public ownership as the mainstay and multiple ownership economies developing together, and adheres to and improves the distribution system with distribution according to work as the mainstay and multiple modes of distribution coexisting; In the political system, we should adhere to the organic unity of the leadership of the Party, the people being the masters of the country and governing the country according to law, and adhere to and improve the system of people's congresses, the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), the system of regional ethnic autonomy and the system of grass-roots mass autonomy. These are the basic systems of socialism in China. The socialist core value system is the inner spiritual soul of the socialist system, which permeates all aspects of economic, political, cultural and social construction, provides an ideological basis for the development and improvement of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and guides the whole party and people of all nationalities to March forward courageously along the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Second, the socialist core value system is the spiritual banner of socialist China.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics Road is the broad road to national prosperity, national rejuvenation, people's happiness and social harmony, and it is the choice of history, people and times. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, China has made remarkable achievements. However, the road ahead is not smooth sailing, and we have encountered various difficulties and obstacles. No matter in good times or bad times, the socialist core value system unites, inspires and inspires people with its great theoretical, spiritual and moral strength, and has become the guiding light for the people of all ethnic groups in China to advance. At present, reform and development have entered a critical stage. Under the new situation of profound changes in economic system, social structure, interest pattern and concept, China's social ideology and culture are diverse and changeable, which urgently requires the formation of extensive social knowledge and cohesion of all forces. Our party clearly put forward to build a socialist core value system and clearly display the spiritual banner of socialist China, which is to show that the core part of China's socialist ideology is unshakable and further reveal and establish the cornerstone and pillar of China's socialist ideology and value system. The socialist core value system not only affects all aspects of economic, political, cultural and social life, but also profoundly affects the world outlook, outlook on life and values of every member of society. With a high degree of cohesion and broad appeal, it provides an important ideological guarantee and a strong spiritual motivation for promoting scientific development and promoting social harmony.
The socialist core value system is an important embodiment of Chinese excellent culture in the new era and the core content of national cultural soft power. Cultural soft power is largely manifested in national cohesion, which mainly comes from people's recognition of the core value system. The world today is undergoing extensive and profound changes. With the in-depth development of world multipolarization and economic globalization, all kinds of ideological and cultural exchanges, blending and confrontation are more frequent around the world, which further highlights the strategic position of cultural soft power in the competition of comprehensive national strength and the lifeline role of core value system in social development. Building a socialist core value system provides an important follow-up for further consolidating and expanding socialist ideology, defines the direction of efforts for further inheriting and carrying forward Chinese excellent culture, and is conducive to mastering the initiative, dominance and discourse power in the ideological field, enhancing the cohesion and creativity of the Chinese nation and expanding the influence of Chinese culture.
The socialist core value system has been widely recognized by the people of the whole country and has shown great vitality in practice. Since the reform and opening up, the international situation has changed, and the reform task is arduous and arduous. The party and the people have experienced and overcome the severe tests and challenges that are rare in the world. We calmly responded to a series of international emergencies related to China's sovereignty and security, and overcame the difficulties and risks in political, economic, social and other fields and nature. Especially in the extraordinary year of 2008, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the whole party and people of all ethnic groups fought bravely against severe low temperature, freezing rain and snow disasters in parts of the south and the devastating earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, successfully hosted the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympics, successfully completed the manned space mission of Shenzhou VII, calmly responded to the impact of the international financial crisis, fully demonstrated the great strength of the party and people, and demonstrated the great strength of reform and opening up. These are not only vivid practices of the socialist core value system, but also enrich its connotation. Facts show that the socialist core value system is deeply rooted in the spiritual blood of the Chinese nation, in the great practice of the contemporary people in China, and in the socialist system, which has infinite power to inspire Chinese sons and daughters to forge ahead.
Third, the socialist core value system is a powerful ideological weapon to lead the social ideological trend.
Firmly establishing the socialist core value system among all the people is related to the long-term development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. We should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, vigorously strengthen the construction of the socialist core value system, persist in arming the whole party and educating the people with the latest achievements of Marxism in China, strengthen ideological and moral education, and effectively integrate the socialist core value system into the whole process of national education and spiritual civilization construction, which runs through all aspects of socialist modernization. At the same time, adhere to the socialist core value system to lead the social ideological trend, respect differences, tolerate diversity, and resolutely resist the influence of all kinds of mistakes and decadent ideas, so that this value system can be deeply grasped and consciously recognized by the broad masses of the people and truly become the main theme of social spiritual life.
In recent years, some people flaunt western freedom, democracy and human rights as "universal values", trying to replace the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s leadership and socialist system with western political system model. These views are untenable in theory and harmful in practice. Social existence determines social consciousness. Because human society is constantly developing and social relations are constantly changing, values should also change with the changes of social relations; Because the subjects living in different social positions in social relations must have different social needs, the same thing has different values for different subjects, and the same subject has different value judgments for the same thing under different conditions. Therefore, values are concrete, applicable to all subjects, all times and all places, and the values that transcend time and space and never change do not exist. Of course, as human beings living on the same earth, when dealing with the relationship between man and nature, man and society, and man and man, it is inevitable that they will encounter the same or similar problems, form some common needs and pursue some common values. Especially in areas with many common interests such as environmental protection, disaster prevention and relief, health and epidemic prevention, crime prevention and sports competition, it is easier to realize value. However, these values are relative, not absolute. In areas with more conflicts of interest, the homogeneity of values is less, especially in the core value system, which is more fundamentally different. We should not only see the similarity in the value field, actively learn from and absorb all the achievements of advanced civilizations in the world to develop Socialism with Chinese characteristics, but also see the fundamental differences in the core value systems of different societies, and never simply copy the western core values.
Freedom, democracy and human rights are the fruits of civilization created by human beings. However, values such as freedom, democracy and human rights gradually emerged with the development of social history, and were given different contents in different historical development stages. Different countries and different historical development stages have different forms and ways to realize freedom, democracy and human rights. There is no universally applicable development path and model in the world, and there is no fixed development path and model. We must never copy the western model. We must develop democracy based on China's national conditions, constantly promote the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system, promote the all-round development of the economy, society and people, and embark on a development path of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. As Comrade Deng Xiaoping emphasized: "When promoting democracy, we must strictly distinguish between socialist democracy and bourgeois democracy and individualistic democracy"; "Democracy in capitalist society is bourgeois democracy, which is actually a monopoly capital democracy. It is nothing more than multi-party elections, separation of powers and bicameral system. Our system is the people's congress system, and the people's democratic system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China cannot engage in the Western system. "
Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our party has led people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to persist in combining the basic principles of Marxism with the specific reality and characteristics of the times in China, and gradually formed the road of political development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, that is, adhering to the organic unity of party leadership and party leadership, adhering to and improving the people's congress system, the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), the system of regional ethnic autonomy and the system of grassroots mass autonomy, and constantly promoting the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. This "one unity" and "four systems" constitute the institutional arrangement that is most suitable for China's national conditions and can best unite the will and strength of the 654.38+300 million people, which embodies the characteristics and advantages of socialism in China.
It must be noted that the world is rich and colorful. Due to the different historical backgrounds, social systems, levels of development, cultural traditions and values of different countries, there cannot and should not be only one civilization, one social system, one development model and one value concept in the world. The diversity of civilization is the basic feature of human society and the driving force for the progress of human civilization. We respect the diversity of the world and actively absorb and learn from the outstanding achievements of civilizations of various countries.
Vigorously building the socialist core value system is not only a major practical problem, but also a long-term historical task. We should fully grasp the profound connotation and basic requirements of the socialist core value system, better guide the broad masses of cadres and people to unswervingly hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, unswervingly adhere to the Socialism with Chinese characteristics road, unswervingly adhere to the Socialism with Chinese characteristics theory system, and strive to create a new situation in the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.