The Theory Of Deng Xiaoping Ideal And Faith And Its Contemporary Enlightenment

The theory of Deng Xiaoping ideal and faith is proposed under certain era backgrounds. On one hand, it derives from his summary on the development experience of Chinese Communist Party and the deep thinking on the historical lessons of “Cultural Revolution”; On the other hand, on the basis of analyzing the increasingly fierce global situation, national situation of opening up and reform and the party situation featuring obvious contradictories, he thinks how to strengthen the ideal faith education and provide spirit motivation to the opening up and reform.The major content of the theory of Deng Xiaoping ideal and faith could be divided into three parts. The first part is Deng Xiaoping’s theory about the position of ideal and faith: Communist ideal is the spiritual pillar for us. The economic reform shall still insist the lofty ideal of communism. It’s impossible to carry out the four modernizations without ideal and principles. It should in particular to educate the next generation to establish the lofty ideal of communism. Common ideals and strong faith are the premises for the cooperation of people. Only with the common ideal, we can have the strict discipline. The second part is Deng Xiaoping’s theory about ideal and faith education. It proposes specific measures on the basis of illustrating “Marxism is the science”. Schools shall always give priority to the firm and correct political direction. The ideal discipline education would come into effect only when the mass interests are focused; warriors in the battlefront of thought, as engineers of soul, should hold fast the Marxism and Socialism banner. The third part is Deng Xiaoping’s theory about the practice of ideal and faith, pointing out that there are different guidelines in different historic stages to realize communism. It should combine the lofty ideal with daily work, striving to make everyone to move forward towards the Communism according to their personal conditions. It is recommended to transfer the lofty ideal to the realistic down-to-earth revolutionary working style. CPC members shall take the lead to practice the Communism thinking and Communism morality.The theory of Deng Xiaoping ideal and faith was proposed in the last century, but it features scientific connotation, pragmatic target, and steadfastness of the practice, abundant content and targeted education. Its illustration exerts influences in multiple eras and regions. In the current historic period of deepening reform, it still has era value, important theoretical value and practical guidance significances. It provides us with following enlightenments: Firstly, the lofty ideal of Communism shall be combined with the short-term ideal; secondly, the ideal and faith education shall pay attention to individual differences; thirdly, ideal and faith education shall be combined with the practical interests of the great mass; fourthly, the realization of ideal shall be represented in the actions; fifthly, CPC members and cadres shall take the lead to strengthen the ideal and faith and combat with the corruption with initiatives.