The Research Of Deng Xiaoping’s Scientific Method About Advancing Marxism In China

Standing on the historical starting point of the early21st Century to review theninety year history of the Chinese Communist Party, you will find after Marxism inChina walked rugged arduous historical process, it produced Mao Zedong Thoughtand socialism with Chinese characteristics. The two innovations not only provide afundamental ideological guarantee and a powerful spiritual force for the success ofChinese revolution, construction and reform, but also enable us to continue to developconfidence in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and make us full ofhope to the future of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.From the late1970s to the early1990s, Comrade Deng Xiaoping in China’swhither historical background still insisted on combining the basic principles ofMarxism with the concrete practice of China and characteristics of the times.“What isMarxism, and how to deal with Marxism”,“what is socialism and how to buildsocialism,"what kind of party do we need and how to build the party","what kind ofdevelopment, how to develop" these four basic problems created a new era of reformand opening up and socialist modernization, successfully explore the road ofsocialism with Chinese characteristics, and founded the Contemporary Marxism inChina-Deng Xiaoping Theory, and establish the basic framework of socialism withChinese characteristics theoretical system and also achieve a second leap of Marxismin China.Following the Comrade Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping was able to make ahistoric major contribution of Marxism in China. This not only stemmed from hisprofound theoretical basis of Marxism and the proletarian revolutionaries ofextraordinary boldness and courage, but also from his unique scientific method. In theprocess of promoting Marxism in China, one hand, he applied the Marxist worldoutlook and methodology, adhere to solve the problem at the core of emancipating themind, seeking truth from facts; persist in the areas of human-centered view of themasses, the mass line; adhere to go in order to achieve their own Road is thecombination of theory and practice of the goal to solve the problem. On the other hand, his ingenious use of a series of unique advancing scientific method of Marxismin China: both anti-"left", but also the anti-rightist; not books, not just only focus onfacts "; stick to principles emphasis on strategy; adhere to the bottom-up andtop-down combination of methods; adhere to democratic discussion and persuasion,combining education; adhere to absorb inherit and learn from innovative organic unity;adhere to the gradual transition and reform; adhere to unite look forward, let go, anddevelopment; seek to bide our time, as a "strategic approach to development; bold tobreak, boldly try, dare to experiment, not afraid of risk, and so on.After two decades, Deng Xiaoping’s scientific method of advancing Marxism inChina still have extremely important reference value both in theory and practice ofpromoting Marxism in China. And it still provide profound and valuable lesson to us:Stick to the scientific belief of Marxism, namely,"Our ancestors can not be lost, weuse the basis of the scientific method of Marxism well; adhere to the scientific attitudeof Marxism, deal to the problem with the world view of dialectical materialism andhistorical materialist, those will be the premise of using the scientific method ofMarxism; an accurate grasp of national conditions, proceed from reality, is theconditions of using scientific methods of Marxism; accurately grasp thecharacteristics of the times, emancipate the mind,seek truth from facts is theprotection of the scientific method of Marxism; to create a learning party, andcontinuously improve the overall quality and theoretical level is the path of usingthe scientific method of Marxism in China.The formation of method always comes from practice, and ultimately will beapplied to guide practice. In the critical period of building a moderately prosperoussociety, scientific development and social modernization; we are confronted with thenew changes at home and abroad and unprecedented opportunities and challenges.Under the new historical conditions, we need to learn from Deng Xiaoping’sscientific method of advancing Marxism in China, to promote Marxism better andwrite a new chapter in the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics.