How to draw a clear line between the advanced socialist culture and the corrupted culture of feudalism and capitalism

First of all, it should be clear what socialist advanced culture is.

Advanced socialist culture is a culture guided by Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics; it is a culture that carries forward the spirit of the nation, unites the will and strength of the people of all ethnic groups, and is positive, healthy and upwardly mobile; it is a culture that inherits and carries forward the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, and is characterized by a Chinese style and style; it is a culture that draws on the strengths of the cultures of all countries and absorbs all the excellent cultural achievements of foreign countries; it is a culture that faces the world, the future and modernity. It is a culture that draws on the strengths of other cultures and absorbs all the outstanding cultural achievements of foreign countries; it is a national, scientific and popular culture that is oriented to the world, to the future and to modernization.

Secondly, it is important to recognize the manifestations of decadent ideology and culture and their dangers.

Feudalism and capitalism corrupt ideology and culture are manifested in the phenomenon of power and money transactions in the economic sphere, the phenomenon of personal autocracy in the political sphere, the phenomenon of vulgarization in interpersonal relations, as well as the phenomenon of bureaucracy, hierarchical concepts, privileged thinking, patriarchal styles, feudal superstitions and so on in terms of ideology and style of work. The existence of these decadent ideological culture, seriously undermining the construction of socialism, erosion of the healthy body of the party, corrupting the social atmosphere and party style, is an important ideological root cause of corruption and degeneration of some party members and cadres, must fundamentally solve these problems.

Thirdly, the boundaries of the two ideologies and cultures should be drawn from the historical scale and the value scale.

To judge whether culture is advanced or not from the historical scale is to see whether this culture is at the forefront of the times and whether it is in line with the trend of historical development; to judge whether culture is advanced or not from the value scale is to see what kind of role this kind of culture plays in the development of economy and society, and whose interests it reflects and for whom it serves. In today's world, only socialist culture, as a reflection of socialist economy and politics, is the culture that is truly in the forefront of the times, represents the trend of historical development, and reflects the fundamental interests of the most advanced class. This kind of socialist cultural consciousness and cultural self-confidence, based on the organic unity of the two scales, is both a prerequisite for us to draw a clear line between the two and a powerful impetus to promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture.

Fourth, we should draw a clear line between the two ideologies and cultures in terms of their basic characteristics.

There is a fundamental difference between socialist ideology and culture and the corrupt ideology and culture of feudalism and capitalism, firstly, in terms of social foundation, the former is based on the economic system of "public ownership", while the latter is based on private ownership; secondly, in terms of value orientation, socialist ideology and culture adhere to the "human" principle, while feudalism and capitalism are based on the "human" principle. human" orientation, the corrupt ideology and culture of feudalism adhere to the "official" orientation, and the corrupt ideology and culture of capitalism adhere to the "material" orientation; thirdly, in terms of historical role, the former promotes social development, while the latter attempts to restore and retrogress, the former serves the people, while the latter harms others and benefits others. The first is to serve the people, the second is to harm others and benefit oneself, the first is healthy and beneficial, the second is negative and decadent.

Fifthly, we should draw a clear line between the two in terms of the dimensions of "public and private" and "new and old".

In the dimension of "public and private", the former contains the ideological concepts of collectivism, fairness, justice, public will, and public welfare, while the latter is centered on the concept of private ownership, with individualism as the main content; in the dimension of "new and old", the essence of traditional Chinese culture looks old, but it has the power of the old. On the dimension of "new and old", the essence of traditional Chinese culture, which looks old, has the value of abandonment, inheritance and development; some fashionable ideas and cultural patterns from the West, which look new, are just borrowed bodies or mutated and renovated.

Sixth, to distinguish the achievements of human civilization from the corrupt ideas and culture of feudalism and capitalism.

When dealing with past human cultures, we must not be simple and brutal, but must adopt a scientific attitude and a dialectical approach to analyze and clean up in a concrete way. In particular, it is necessary to distinguish between the pursuit of self-interest and extreme individualism, between emphasizing material wealth and money worship, and between enjoyment of life and hedonism.

Seventh, out of the misunderstanding.

Drawing the line between the two is theoretically complex and practically ambiguous, and it is necessary to get out of the misunderstanding. One of the misunderstandings is that the demarcation of the boundary between the two ideologies and cultures means a "complete break" with all the ideologies and cultures of the feudal and capitalist societies, neglecting the need to boldly assimilate and draw on all the fruits of civilization created by the human society that can be ****enjoyed; secondly, it is believed that the demarcation of the boundary between the two ideologies and cultures means to oppose the feudalism with capitalism, and only then can capitalism be used as the basis for the development of the world's economy. The second misunderstanding is that to draw a clear line between the two ideologies and cultures is to oppose feudalism with capitalism, and then to oppose capitalism with socialism, and therefore to "make up for the lessons of capitalism", without seeing that there are also jumping modes and later-advancing modes in addition to sequential modes in the development of human society.

Eighth, the important relationships between "one and many", "rejection and acceptance", and "breaking and establishing" should be properly dealt with.

One is to correctly deal with the relationship between "one and many", not only to respect the diversity, but also to establish the dominant; the second is to correctly deal with the relationship between "rejection and acceptance", and resolutely reject the dregs at the same time capture the essence of the third is to correctly deal with the relationship between "broken and established", the third is to correctly deal with the relationship between "broken and established". The third is to correctly deal with the relationship between "breaking and establishing", not only to break the rotten ideology and culture inherited from history, but also to break the seemingly new trend and the essence of the rotten westernized trend, but also to break the false socialist ideas that seem to be wrong, and to build an advanced socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.