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Jiang Zemin on Theoretical Innovation
Jiang Zemin on Theoretical Innovation
Chinese President Jiang Zemin Friday urged senior military officers to study the scientific methods of Marxism based on the actual issues to steadily push forward reform, opening up, and the socialist modernization drive.
Jiang, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remark Friday at the University of National Defense in Beijing.
He called on the officers to combine theoretical innovation with real practice to keep the CPC vigorous.
The senior officers were attending a theory seminar on an important speech delivered by Jiang on July 1, 2001 at a celebration marking the 80th anniversary of the CPC.
Jiang stressed that theoretical innovation must follow two basic principles: the stand, view points and methods of Marxism and its basic theories; and implementation of the guideline of ideological emancipation and seeking truth from facts.
"The two principles serve as the touchstone which tests whether we are real Marxists," he said.
"We shall always stick to the basic theory of Marxism at any time. We must oppose any statement or behavior that denies and abandons Marxism," he emphasized.
However, adhering to Marxism, can never follow dogmatism or book worship.
"We should take a scientific attitude by viewing Marxism as a science that develops along with the development of the reality," Jiang said.
He cited Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as glorious examples who have dealt with Marxism scientifically.
Jiang said the world's politics, economy, culture, science and technology have undertaken profound changes over the past one and a half centuries since the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published.
"There is no limitation for practice, nor for ideological emancipation," Jiang said, "the only correct attitude towards Marxism is to develop it while adhering to it, and to adhere to it while developing it."
"Whether we have stick to Marxism depends on whether we have applied it in solving China's problems and enhancing the growth of the Party's cause," he said.
"The more problems it has been used to solve, the better we have applied. We should stick to Marxism during the process of solving actual problems and examine it with the result of practice, " Jiang said.
He noted that the army is the people's army that upholds the Party's absolute leadership. For years the army has showed strong political resolution by always standing by the Party's side on big principles and political struggles.
The army should meet more strict requests in studying and implementing the Party's theoretical guideline and policies, Jiang said.
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