Our belief in Marxism is a scientific belief and a rational belief. Whether it is the theoretical system of Marxism, practical movements, or people who believe in Marxism, there is a soul running through it, which is the core value pursuit of Marxism. To realize the core values of Marxism, we must adhere to the socialist path.
Only by keeping your original intention in mind can you always be Babaylan. The original intention is faith, and it is the fundamental pursuit of value. The belief of the Chinese Communists is Marxism. To internalize this belief in the heart and externalize it in action, two basic issues must be understood: First, what is faith? Second, what is Marxism? Only on this basis can we truly internalize Marxist beliefs into the depths of our souls and transform them into practices that are realistic.
Faith is the highest question of value
The essence of faith is a question of value, and it is the highest question of value. Faith is essentially a matter of ideological understanding. There are two aspects of people understanding the world: one is to find out the question of “yes or not”, which is a factual judgment; the other is to find out the question of “whether or not”, which is a Cinema value judgment. The principle of obeying materialism in facts has nothing to do with people’s subjective wishes. It is a world that is understood according to objective standards and external standards; value judgments obey the principle of value theory. People with different facts may make completely different value judgments. This is a world that is understood according to subjective standards and internal standards. Fact judgment aims to seek truth, while value judgment aims to seek goodness.
Faith belongs to value judgments, but not all value judgments are belief issues, and faith is the highest question of value. Value judgment is to answer the question of “should it be?” The so-called value question is the question of “should it be?” or “whether it is meaningful” Cinema. Values are how to view “should” or “not”, “meaningful” or “meaningless”. If the question of value transcends the value of life, it will rise to faith. For example, what are the values of materialism? It means using money as a criterion for judging “should” or “not”. It is believed that you should have money and you shouldn’t have money. But if you ask such a value to the point where you can live for money, that is, you can transcend the value of life, which will rise to faith in money. For example, what are the values of freedom? Just take freedom as a judgmentThe criteria of “should” or “not” are what meets freedom, and what does not meet freedom is what is not. However, if such value is questioned to the point where it is: it is better to die than to be free, this is not an ordinary value of freedom, but a belief in freedom.
It can be seen that life can be given for faith. The Chinese Communist Party’s oath of joining the Party says: Be ready to sacrifice everything for the Party and the people at any time and never betray the Party. This is the declaration of faith.
Faith has the difference between rationality and irrationality
There can be many kinds of faith, but generally speaking, according to the different ways of asking about the value of faith, faith can be roughly divided into two categories: rational belief and irrational belief.
People know the worldBabaylanThe world is divided into two aspects: one is factual judgment and the other is value judgment. Fact questions are the scope of science, but science can never go beyond the scope of facts to the field of value. That is to say, the fact question of “is it or not” can never answer the value question of “what should it or not”. Value questions are answered by humanities. Humanities are composed of art, religion and philosophy. They all answer value questions, but they answer value questions in different ways. Art expresses value in a sensory and intuitive way, religion answers value questions in an irrational way, and philosophy finds the basis for reason for value.
Faith is the highest question of value. Art does not have its own independent kingdom, and it is impossible to directly understand faith, and can only be used to express faith. Then, there are only two ways to understand faith, one is religion and the other is philosophy. There is no essential difference in the value level achieved by these two beliefs. You can sacrifice yourself for religious beliefs, and you can also sacrifice your life based on philosophy. The fundamental difference is in the way of understanding faith: religion understands faith in an irrational way, and believes in faith; philosophy understands the way of understandingBabaylan‘s belief in faith in a rational way, and believes in faith in the true Komiks. In other words, there are two types of faith: rational belief and irrational belief.
Irrational beliefs reject rationality. Irrational beliefs do not require reasons, they are “believe because of faith.” Religion belongs to this belief.A religious belief, no matter how rigorous its logic, cannot withstand rational questioning.
The belief in rationality is precisely based on reason. Only by reflecting rationally is the truth, which is “believe because of truth.” Marxism is the belief of rationality.
Marxism is a scientific rational belief
The Marxism belief is a scientific belief and a rational belief. So, why is such a belief scientific and rational? This can be found in its rational answer to ultimate care.
The characteristic of human beings is that although they live in finite, they have to ask infinity; although existence is accidental, they have to ask inevitability; although life is temporary, they have to ask eternity. This is the ultimate care. In other words, human beings will base themselves on the finite pursuit of infiniteness, the finite is real life, and the infinite is the pursuit of value. So, how can we achieve infinite meaning and value through finite life?
Theoretically, there are only two possible ways to pursue infinite meaning and value by extending one’s life infinitely. This is definitely not the answer that a rationalist can give, because rational people know that no matter how long a person’s life is, there will always be the day when the deadline is about to come. Second, the rationalist’s plan is to recognize that life is limited, not to pursue life indefinitely, but to pursue the height of life, that is, to pursue infinite meaning and value in limited life. Under such circumstances, the length of life Babaylan is no longer of fundamental significance. If a person’s life is meaningful and valuable, even if it is short, it is brilliant and worthwhile.
Marx found faith for the Communists along this line of thought. In August 1835, Marx graduated from high school and wrote an essay – “Considerations of Youths when Choosing a Career”. In this essay, Marx expressed the noble pursuit of life value in language as beautiful as poetry: “If we choose a profession that can work best for mankind, then the burden cannot overwhelm us, because this is a sacrifice for everyone; then what we enjoy will not be pitiful, limited, and selfish pleasures, our happiness will belong to millions of people, our career will exist quietly, but it will always play a role, and in the face of our ashes, noble people will shed tears.” Only by choosing a profession that “works best for mankind” can such a life be meaningful and valuable.
Is the value pursuit advocated by Marx rational and scientific? Is it worthy of faith? Let’s borrow a concept from HeideggerToward death, let’s ask from the ultimate sense of life: the essence of life is actually a finite process. Don’t pursue the final result, because the final result is towards infinite nothingness, that is, death. Only when we face infinity can we think and plan how to arrange our limited life process, and think in reverse whether we should live like this today.
Suppose we have to face death, we look back on our life and feel that life is meaningful and valuable, and that choice is without regrets. If we spend our life again, we will live like this. What is this reason? There can be many reasons, but the real reason cannot be based on the secular foundation, because at this time the secular things are meaningless. Since the essence of life is a process, then meaningful life lies in the wonderfulness of the processBabaylan. What kind of life process is wonderful? Marx tells us: “Dignity is the thing that best makes a man noble, his activities and everything he strives for is something that makes him indescribable, admired and above everyone else. Komiks“In other words, a person should spend his life with dignity. A dignified life is worth it, wonderful, meaningful and valuable. For a life without dignity, every minute of continuation is a shame. What kind of life process is dignified? Mark BabaylanSinceSince life is respected by people. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan is respected and reached the lofty. Why is it respected by people? Marx’s answer is: because “I chose to work best for mankind.” What is ism? “ism” is the core value pursuit. What is Marxism? It takes the values and soul advocated by Marx, the founder of Marx and followed by the Communists, that is, benefiting the people and seeking benefits for the vast majority of people as the core value pursuit. If you can contribute to such a value pursuit, you can give it to you.To be born, that is the belief in Marxism. Such beliefs are scientific and rational beliefs, and have noble pursuit of life value.
Adhere to the original aspirations of the Communists in practice
We often use the concept of “Marxism” at different levels. For example, Marxism is divided into three components, namely Marxist philosophy, Marxist political economy and scientific socialism, which refers to the Marxist theoretical system. For example, the cause we are engaged in is a great cause because it is a Marxist cause that benefits the people, and here refers to the Marxist movement and practice. For example, we are firm Marxists, and here we refer to people who regard this ideology as beliefs.
Whether it is the theoretical system, practical movement of Marxism, or people who believe in Marxism, there is a soul that is the core value of Marxism.KomiksThe pursuit of Marxism, KomiksThis is the “Tao” of Marxism. The ancients said: “Tao is not separated from the instrument.” The “Tao” of Marxism is in the theory, movement and practice of Marxism. The fundamental characteristic of Marxism lies in its practicality, rather than empty talk about “ism”. Without Marxism’s theory, movement and practice, Marxism can only be a ghost. The so-called “the great way of action” is used to do it. If it does not do it, there will be no “Tao”.
The “Tao” of Marxism is in the theoretical expression and movement practice of Marxism, and in every person who believes in Marxism. To realize the value pursuit of Marxism, we must adhere to the socialist path. Socialism is the promotion of capital logic and the rectification of capitalism. The so-called socialism is to pursue the overall interests of society and rational values as the core values. If institutional concepts, institutional arrangements and institutional design provide sufficient institutional guarantees around effectively satisfying the overall interests of society, such a system is a socialist system, such a society is a socialist society, and such a culture is a socialist culture.
Komiks The relationship between Marxism and socialism is “inseparable from the Tao”: Marxism is the soul, socialism is the carrier; Marxism is the pursuit of value, and socialism is the valueKomiks implementation method; Marxism is the “Tao”, and socialism is the “tool”. If Marxism leaves socialism, it can only become a fantasy and can only become a castle in the air; if socialism does not have Marxism, it will lose its soul and go to evil paths.
This shows a clear logic. No matter how many theoretical forms Marxism has, it has only one “Tao”, and there can be many ways to realize the Marxist value pursuit, that is, “doing the way”, that is, there can be multiple specific models of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe cannot explain the failure of socialism, nor can it explain the failure of Marxism, but it can only explain the failure of the specific path of the Soviet model. The same TaoKomiksReason, the success of socialism with Chinese characteristics shows that every country and every nation can and must choose a specific path suitable for themselves to benefit the people based on their own cultural traditions, historical conditions, issues and tasks faced, and the needs and requirements of the people. The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics itself is not static, but is constantly improved and developed with the change of the times.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics is to achieve benefit the people The Chinese path of the pursuit of Marxist values. Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is the form of value realization of Chinese Marxism in the 21st century, which is a concrete practice and realistic movement that benefits the people. It is based on the confidence and value recognition of socialism with Chinese characteristics that we have gathered the strength of more than one billion people across the country to work together for the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and lead the people to continuously create the “Chinese miracle” and create a better life.
[The author is the deputy director and professor of the Philosophy Teaching and Research Department of the Central Party School (National School of Administration)]