Interest In Innovation, Change And Ideology

Socialist ideological innovation is a very important theoretical and practical issue. It is of important significance for making socialist ideology more attractive and cohesive, arousing the positivity, initiative and creativity of all sides, attaining a new realm in adapting Marxism to conditions in China, creating a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The innovation of socialist ideology is not blindfold but disciplinary. We can profoundly master the discipline only by analyzing the root issue from the essence on forming and development of ideology. This article studies the relationship between the changes of interests and the innovation of socialist ideology and the challenges created by the variance of interests relation, with the help of basic viewpoint of Marxism interests theory. At the same time, the article put forward basic ideas on innovation of socialist ideology in order to realize the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people.This article contains three parts. The part 1, including chapter 1 and chapter 2, mainly analyses and studys from the theoretical angle the relationship between interests and ideology. It emphasizes particularly'forming theory'. The part 2, including chapter 3 and chapter 4, discusses the practical functions that the interests exert in the course of the forming and development of socialist ideology from the positive and negative aspects. It emphasizes particularly'proving theory'. The part 3, including chapter 5, chapter 6 and chapter 7, discusses the problems on content of ideology for the moment and provides disciplinary outlook on how to innovate socialist ideology in its developmental process. It emphasizes particularly'analyzing and solving problems'.The introduction analyzes the gist of the issue,research status in quo, significance study methods.Chapter 1, the author mainly discusses the common theory about interests and ideology. Firstly, it makes overall definition on concepts including interests relationship and ideology, which provides theoretical foundation for explaining them. Secondly, the author puts forward that ideology comes into being owing to the necessaries of special class's interests and the most substaintial function is explaining, safeguarding , conforming and expressing on interests. Finally, the author summarizes the dialectic relationship between interests and ideology, puts forward that on the one side we must regard the interest as aim and outcome of all the work in the course of studying ideology, on the other side, we must avoid simplification as far as their relationship is concerned. Because the mutual functions need many links.Chapter 2, the author elaboratily discusses the interest function of socialist ideology. Any ideology is a system of theory that proceeds from interests of special class or group. Socialist ideology guided by Marxism is the system of theory which aims at realization of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. This chapter mainly analyzes interest functions of socialist ideology from the initial impetus of production and forming of Marxism. The scientific character of socialist ideology lies in its interests relationship accords with scientific standard. Socialist ideology promotes interests by three ways: increasing interest gross, rationalizing interest relationship and eliminating disturbs in the course of interests realization.Chapter 3, the author mainly analyzes innovation of socialist ideology from the view of historical experiences. There are four times innovation in the development of socialist ideology. The first symbol is the forming of Mao Zedong Thought. The second one is the forming of Deng Xiaoping Theory. The third one is the forming of the important thought of Three Represents. The fourth one is the forming of the Scientific Outlook on Development. We can draw a conclusion that the four times innovation are substantial results as well as historical experience. We must not forget that each innovation of ideology start from the requirement of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, and the ultimate clew is the development and variance of interests, although there are all kinds of international and domestic conditions along with causes in the course of the four innovation.Chapter 4, the author mainly analyzes the frustrations and errors of innovation of socialist ideology from the view of historical lessons. The chapter consists two parts. The first part touches upon Western Marxism's theory of ideology. Although we can not regard it as socialist ideology, Western Marxism's theory of ideology occupies an important place in the overall western thoughts. There are many reasons for its unsuccessful result, but the most essential reason is that the theory break away the relationship of interests seriously and attemps to issue an revolution in ideological zones. The second part is the setback of ideology of our country from 1957 to 1976 and the lost of ideology of Prevenient Soviet Union. They all belong to the unsuccessful ideology as a whole. We may fully pick up the ultimate reason by analyzing interests, although they are different in many aspects.Chapter 5, the analyses come back to earth from theoretic and historic one. We are confronted with quite complicated situation in the field of ideology. Certainly there are some severe challenges brought by globalization and information-based, however, they are difficulties of methods and means on the whole. There are more and more complex problems as far as the contents of ideology are concerned. We may realize some concrete problems in the field of ideology in our country by studying several aspects such as consolidation of idea about interests, diversification of subject, complication of contents and social problems in the development of interests.Chapter 6, aims for the challenges faced by ideology discussed above, the author put forward some pertinent countermeasures on basic principle, main content and basic means about innovation of socialist ideology. Innovation of socialist ideology in content must regard the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as start and result. The innovation in content includes four aspects: the first one is consolidating directive function on interests aiming at the buildup of idea on interests, the second one is allowing diversity aiming at diversification of subject, the third one is increasing and changing attention of socialist ideology aiming at complication of interests'content, the fourth one is drawing on the fine achievements of international cultures aiming at increasing of the same interests of man's in the world. The basic ways of innovation on content of ideology consists of grasping variance of people's requirement, paying attention to pulse of social psychology, standardizing the pattern of social discourse. Chapter 7, the author illustrates three laws proceeding with the relationship between interests and ideology in the course of innovation of socialist ideology. The first law is that every composing part of socialist ideology must represent the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. This law aims at the deviation of theory from practice as well as objective from means in practice. The second law is that not all the relationship of interests may embody in ideology although they are interactive in origin relation. We must hold the linear measure, otherwise it will lead to suspicion towards the scientific attribute of the socialistic ideology and loss of ideals and beliefs, once there is a little problems in the field of interests. The third law touches upon the relationship between objectives and means. We should make the fundamental interests of the people as objective, and build socialist ideology as means. We must not overturn the relationship. The significance of this law is that some problems in the field of ideology are not only ideaistic and cognitive problems, but in many times they are usually the problems of interests. We can not solve them at all by the means of dissemination and instruction. After all the ideology is a kind of means and the interests are essential, so we must not place things of ideology in the supreme position.