How to understand the relationship between Marxism and traditional culture

1. Marxism is our guiding ideology and distinctive flag. Chinese traditional culture is the "root" and "soul" of the Chinese nation. A correct understanding of the relationship between Marxism and traditional Chinese culture is not only a major theoretical issue, but also a major practical issue concerning what path China is taking and where it is going.

2. Marxism and traditional Chinese culture are not either/or, diametrically opposed. The practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics is an unprecedented great undertaking, and the unique cultural tradition and special basic national conditions dictate that China must take its own path of development.

This path, rooted in the fertile soil of China, is a practical product of the Chineseization of Marxism, a product of the combination of the universal principles of Marxism with China's concrete realities and the characteristics of the times, with distinctive national characteristics and unique cultural genes.

So there is no opposition between traditional culture and Marxism, but on the contrary, the excellent traditional Chinese culture is the root of local culture for the Chineseization of Marxism and the cultural soil for the combination of Marxism and Chinese practice.

At the same time, the introduction of Marxism has also changed the direction of traditional Chinese culture, injected new vitality and vigor into traditional culture, and made Chinese culture develop along the direction of national, scientific and popular culture.

Expanded Information:

National culture is the unique identity of a nation that distinguishes it from other nations. Chinese culture has a long history and has accumulated the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, representing the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation.

We should earnestly draw on the ideological essence and moral essence of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, strengthen the excavation and elaboration of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and make the most basic cultural genes of the Chinese nation compatible with the contemporary culture and harmonized with the modern society.

Chinese culture has been passed on from fire to fire throughout its 5,000-year history, and its cultural traditions have never been interrupted. Like the culture of any other nation in the world, the tradition of Chinese culture is not a thousand years old, but has always been in a process of endless growth, newness and change.

Party Building - Guan Jianying: How to view the relationship between Marxism and traditional Chinese culture