On The Youth Political Socialization Problems

Take the Communist Youth League as the main body, this dissertation makes an inquiry into the political socialization problems of youth based on the view of historical materialism and materialistic dialectics. Political caliber and personality of the young people is closely related to the future of any nation. Therefore, it is an urgent task to promote the theme of the times--the youth political socialization. By summarizing the basic contents of youth political socialization firstly and excavating the Marxist concept of youth and Marxist theory of political socialization, this dissertation demonstrates the theoretical origins of youth political socialization--Marxism. The historical experience mainly covers the following points:insistence on the leadership of communist party, building the ideological foundation for the young people on the basis of Chinese localized Marxism theory, keeping pace with the times, adjusting the form of organization and way of working promptly, stressing on the media's function of youth political socialization, organizing the young people broadly and insisting on the combination of guiding and caring for the young people, using the activities as the carrier to influence the young people. A number of ways are adopted to guide the youth political socialization by the Communist Youth League, including ideological and theoretical education, social practice participation, training of organization activities, systematical arrangement for the young people to participate in the administration and discussion of state affairs, typical guidance and exemplary demonstration. The working mechanism of Communist Youth League's guidance to the youth political socialization is to achieve positive transformation of political participation, identification and recognition through activity carriers'interaction and insistence on Dialectical Unity of self-education and practical education. Through analyzing the current situation and existing problems of youth political socialization, as well as the opportunity and challenge, this dissertation proposes a new time strategy of the political socialization guidance. The paper concludes with a new era guidance proposition, that is, to expand the coverage of the league organizations, to build the organizational foundation to guide the youth political socialization, to establish the mechanism with sound services and good mobilization to young people. Emotional identity of the youth league organizations should be promoted for the young people to guide different levels of youth groups according to their characteristics. Advantage of the network platform should also be taken fully to expand the means of youth political socialization so as to guide all kinds of youth organizations effectively, and to create the benign operation of the youth political participation mechanism.