On The Economic Value Of Ideological And Political Education

Under the background of economic globalization, social development of economy relies on more and more staff's science and culture skills, the professional dedication, the work enthusiasm, the full elaborating of self-consciousness and creativeness. Therefore, paying attention to ideological and political education economic value is extremely urgent in establishing and consummating socialist market economy operational mechanism.The economic value of ideological and political education refers to ideological and political education of the workforce can be created by the promotion of socio-economic growth and development, and the effect of satisfying the people's material and spiritual needs.The establishment of the concept faces two kinds of difficulties: First, can ideological and political education of the spiritual areas create value? Second, in the people's opinion,ideological and political education only enjoys the political function.It has been a long term since people formed a sort of thinking that politics is the concentrating expression of economy and accordingly concluded that the influence of ideological and political education on the economy, particularly on the productivity, is only a kind of function regarding politics as intermediary rather than its true function. Thus, the mindset of traditional and philosophical methodology restricts people's awareness and entanglement of the economic value of ideological and political education. However, with the development of productivity and economy, the economic value of ideological and political education has increasingly drawn attention.The level can be divided into macro-level and micro-level, according to the influence of ideological and political education to the economy. The so-called macro level is that the practice of ideological and political education can form the certain economic culture, economic moral and economic thinking (social ideology), therefore influence the values orientation of the whole social economic behavior. Ideological and political education influences the economic development directly at the micro-level, besides the macro-level. People are the economic mainstay and own the ideology, so their economic action, economic life is always at the change of the certain ideology .In modern conditions ideological and political education not only stimulates the people's subjective consciousness and competitive consciousness, but also helps people to establish the concept of efficiency , the concept of time and the global concept, so as to promote the socio-economic development and progress in all fields. Ideological and political education, in essence, is the utilization of the scientific theory and the noble thought that enhance person's practical activity with scientific world view and methodology. It is the work which improves people's ideological and ethical standards and the science and culture standards directly, increases their ability to understand and change the world, and fully mobilize human's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity. Ideological and political education has precisely have an effect on people from this perspective, and forms its economic value indirectly.Ideological and political education has the spiritual power to promote the development of the productive force. It is based on the inherent and inevitable relation between the two sides to research this kind of value: productive force, belongs to the category of the economic base, while, ideological and political education belongs to the category of political superstructure. It is apparent that ideological and political education inevitably plays a positive or negative role in promoting the development of the productive. According to the relationship between ideological and political education and labors, the first one is among the essential factors of the productive force. Labors, with certain physical strength and intelligence, are the most important productive force .And the goal of ideological and political education is improving human ideological and political quality, and promoting human development. According to the Marxist productive forces theory, the productive force is composed of two factors: labor and material .Labor is the most active and potential leading factor, Lenin also pointed out that the primary productivity of the whole of mankind is workers, laborers. Therefore, we should understand the economic values of ideological and political education through ideological and political education's effect to major factor of productivity—workers.The function of ideological and political education is to enable the people to have good ideological quality and behavior. Understanding this function with the connotation of productivity, ideological and political education can inspire and promote the productive enthusiasm and creativity of workers in order to enhance the progress and development of productive level. Secondly, to reform productive relations with ideological and political education, people can recognize the necessity of the reform of old productive relations and the establishment of the new one, and then people will devote to the practice of this reform and finally complete the liberation and development of productivity. Marx said : "Once the theory is mastered by the mass it will become material power. " Advanced theory and ideological preparation which are completed through ideological and political education are necessary for the enhancement of productivity through the reform of production relations. In the process of this reform, in order to promote productive forces workers should have firm ideological and political faith and unyielding ideological and political quality for the achievement of this reform with ideological and political education. Last, ideological and political education plays a vital role in the process of science translating into productivity. Ideological and political education can make the laborers have a definite cognition to the purpose and importance of mastering the science and technology. It can foster laborers' ideology quality, enhance their consciousness and enthusiasm to master professional and technological knowledge. In this sense, ideological and political education has spiritual-motivated value to the development of the productivity.Ideological and political education has the guaranteed value in the direction to economic development. Ideological theory is ideological prerequisite of solving social basic contradiction, liberating the productive forces, and promoting the sustained economic development. It plays the role of orienting and adjusting the economic development. The pure economic development that is not dominated by certain ideas does not exist. From the history of the development of human civilization, in any kind of society, A class that occupies the dominant status in both economy and politics must affect social production and constrain economic development direction with their own ideology. Ideological and political education primes the progressive idea and the Party's program, line, principles and policies in the people. And it has become the best guarantee for economic construction. Finally, it ensures normal operation of the development of the socialist market economy. The Chinese socialist market economy should not only follow the general rules of the market economy, but also follow the unique features of the socialist economic system. The socialist market economy is the one with the strong and powerful national macroeconomic control and the strong political advantages, which is not only the driving force of market economy development, but also a powerful guarantee that keep the economy orderly operate in the correct direction.Ideological and political education has its value of creating the environment for the progress of Economy. Indubitably, production of material objects and economic development of any social formation would be dominated by the ideology. At the same time, there exists both advanced ideology and the lagging one. So, if we want to promote the development of produce material objects and economic construction, we must eliminate the lagging ideology. One of the important functions of ideological and political education is that it can eliminate the barrier and create a good spiritual environment.To be specific, Ideological and political education may urge people to regard the progressive problems of economy dialectically and comprehensively, causes people's judgment from the old conventions of the narrow pure economic growth to liberate, replace with the idea of the comprehensive system's development in order to provide the instruction of the integral methodological significance for the economical comprehensive progress.Looking back upon the formation and development of the Chinese and western ideological and political education's economic value and fully excavating the thought of he economic value of Marx and Engels in ideological and political education can further deepen the theoretical research on the economic value of ideological and political education.The economic value of ideological and political education adheres to objectivity and class nature, social nature and historica naturel, practical nature and process of the specific historical reunification, and it has many different manifestations such as potential and inner economic value, ideal and practical economic value, the individual and social economic value . The development of the economic value of ideological and political education needs to improve moral qualities and scientific qualitities of the workers.The market economy is not only one kind of economy which takes foundation of dispositing and combinating the resources, but also one kind of the rational economy which depends on certain cultural value spirit. To realize the economic value of ideological and political education better, In the idea, we must get rid of the dual thought of moral and economy, establish the modern morality of "take the economic development as the center" ; In the content, it must adapt with the level of development of the society, and supplement and renew it moderately along with the time development; Formally, using the form which manifests the historical characteristics and draws close to the people's live, enhances the work pointed, the effectiveness and the influence; In process, we should not only follow the rule of the pedagogue's thought personal character formed and developed, but must follow the rule of the process of ideological and political education process; In the way, adopt to the way which enhances the workers' quality in the productive forces and promotes to transform and develop the productive relations; In the environment, optimizing and conforming each resource,and forming the scientific environment, the humanities' environment and the moral environment are advantageous to the economic progress . However, the formation of spiritual environment depends on the evaluation link of economic value of ideological and political education, In this case, we must make the evaluation of ideological and political education sensible and reasonable basing on its economic essence, scientific standards and practical means.Human understanding of their own ideological and political education activities is a constant historical process which is more conscious and rationalized. In this process, authors of the Marxist classics in their respective areas of research always mentioned deep concern on the world of spiritual survival, consciously or unconsciously, elaborating and implying the values that they supposed and recognized. To this end, putting the economic values of ideological and political education into the history of the Marxism's development, using historical modem state to investigate, in order to gain the concept of historical recognition of the economic values of ideological and political education, and further said that in order to promote recognition of the economic values of ideological and political education to a higher level of awareness consciously.