Research On Lenin’s Learning Thought Of The Ruling Party

As the rapid development of the era, learning gradually became a world trend. In order to keep up with the pace of the times, our party put forward the task to construct the Marxist learning party. While how to build it, we have no ready-made answers. We can only try to find it out in practice on one hand; on the other hand, derive useful experiences from the history of proletariat party construction. Lenin formed the systemic learning thought of ruling party while leading Russian revolution especially socialist construction. It surely will provide helpful enlightment for the ongoing construction of Marxist learning party to study further the thought.In this article, I mainly used the following research methods. The first one is textual interpretation. I carefully studied the Marxist classical original text, such as Complete Works of Lenin, Lenin’s Manuscript, The Resolution Assembly of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, etc, to strive to interpret the essence of Lenin’s ruling party learning thought objectively, comprehensively and accurately. The second one is analysis and induction. First of all, I tried to analyze the rich connotation of the thought of Lenin’s thoroughly. Then I concluded it systematically and extracted the regularity to refer for future generations. The third one is the unification of logic and history. That is, history is where to begin, and logic is also where to begin. The fourth one is the combination of intellectual history and subject history.The formation of Lenin’s ruling party learning thought had its own international and domestic era background. And it also had profound theoretical origin,i.e., Marx and Engels’ related thought on party learning.The formative process of the thought of Lenin’s experienced three stages,that is, the gestation phase before the October Revolution, the putting forward phase in the time of Russian Civil War and the formation phase in the period of New Economic Policy. The main content of Lenin’s ruling party learning thought consisted of the following three aspects. The first one is why to learn. Lenin thought that it’s the need to promote national political and economic construction and strengthen the party’s style construction, etc. The second one is what to learn. Lenin thought that party members and cadres should learn the basic theory of Marxism, how to do economic work and necessary knowledge of science and culture, etc. The third one is how to learn. As for the learning methods, Lenin thought that when party members and cadres learnt, they should relate theory to practice, have a systematic plan, study deeply, think independently and take a critical attitude. As for the measures to promote the party’s study, Lenin thought that they should mainly play the role of main position of party school, the educational role of labour union, the role of resources of library and the improving role of anti-illiteracy campaign. According to Lenin’s related discussion about the ruling party’s learning, we find that it has the following characteristics. Firstly, it lays emphasis on theoretical innovation; secondly, it lays emphasis on improving teachers’ position; thirdly, it lays emphasis on learning from its own mistakes; fourthly, it lays emphasis on learning from bourgeois experts. It also provides the following helpful enlightment for our ongoing learning party construction. Firstly, only by constantly learning, strengthening the party’s construction, can we always retain the socialist system vitality and vigor; secondly, undeveloped countries need to keep learning more often to build socialism; thirdly, it need to innovate learning concept to lead the party’s study; fourthly, it need to construct a scientific operation mechanism to ensure the party’s study, etc. The communist party of China inherited Lenin’s thought about it, and enriched and developed the idea while leading China’s revolution, construction and reform in the concrete practice. Mao Zedong put forward to want to put the whole party into a big school. Deng Xiaoping requested that the whole party must learn again. Jiang Zemin stressed to create a learning society in which every citizen was committed to learning and pursued lifelong learning. Hu Jintao claimed that it should be regarded as an important and urgent strategic task to build Marxist learning party to pay close attention.This paper has the following innovation points. The first one is perspective innovation. I attempt to conduct a monographic study on the topic of Lenin’s party construction thought from the perspective of "ruling party learning". The second one is content innovation. I attempt to divide the development stages of Lenin’s ruling party learning thought. The third one is method innovation. I attempt to adopt the writing way of combination of intellectual history and subject history, and strive not only to intuitively show the horizonal theoretical system of the thought of Lenin’s, but also to clarify its vertical evolution history.