A Study Of Lenin’s Ideology Of Building A Ruling Party In His Later Years

The 20 th Party Congress proposed that the key to comprehensively building a socialist modern state and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation lies in the Party.As the great leader of the proletarian revolution,Lenin’s ideas on the construction of the ruling party formed in his later years were a reflection on the problems of party construction in the construction of Soviet socialism and a development and innovation of Lenin’s ideas on party construction during the revolutionary period,which have important reference and guiding significance for the Chinese Communist Party to strengthen its own construction in the new era.This paper is divided into three parts,except for the introduction.The first part describes the background of the formation of Lenin’s ideas on the construction of the ruling party in his later years.On the international front,the socialist revolutionary movement in the East was rising amidst the negative dynamics of the infinitely prolonged democratic revolutions in the West,and Lenin realized that the building of the Russian Communist Party(RCP)should be strengthened in order to better respond to and support the development of the Eastern revolutions.At the same time,the military encirclement by the Western powers and the political infiltration plans planned by the domestic capitalists,large landowners and imperialist countries in collusion with each other made it urgent to strengthen the ideological construction of the Party.On the domestic front,first of all,after the end of the Three-Year Civil War,the New Economic Policy replaced wartime communism,and the Russian Communist Party(RCPB),which was familiar with revolutionary leadership,seemed very unfamiliar and overwhelmed with the new socialist state building.Lenin thus came up with many measures and ideas to strengthen the capacity building and style building of the ruling party.The second part analyzes Lenin’s thoughts on the construction of the ruling party from the perspective of state governance.Since Russia was the first socialist country with no experience in state governance,it was necessary for the ruling party,as the leader of socialist state governance,to strengthen its capacity,ideology,organization,style,and discipline in order to better promote state governance.In the area of capacity building of the ruling party,Lenin advocated learning from capitalists,cultivating and improving the business ability and management level of communists,as well as strengthening learning in talent selection to improve the efficiency of state organs while maintaining the advanced nature of the ruling party.In the ideological construction of the ruling party,on the one hand,Lenin firmly defended the guiding position of Marxism and combined it with the Russian reality,and on the other hand,provided a cultural basis for the ideological construction of the party by improving the status and treatment of people’s teachers and addressing the generally low cultural quality of the peasants.In the organizational construction of the ruling party,Lenin established and perfected the organizational principle of democratic centralism on the basis of reflections and summaries of the earlier centralism and applied it to the reform of the party organs.And by increasing the number of members of the Central Committee,he further prevented the emergence of the seeds of division;by increasing the proportion of workers and peasants,he enhanced the representativeness of the Central Committee.In the construction of the style of the ruling party,Lenin advocated close contact with the people and the consistent alignment of the party with the interests of the people at all times;at the same time,he fought bureaucracy in the party with the help of mass decision-making,mass management,and mass supervision.In the construction of discipline in the ruling party,Lenin proposed to strengthen the supervision of the Central Committee from within in terms of internal and external mechanisms,and to reorganize the workers’ and peasants’ prosecution offices from outside.In the up-and-down mechanism,a potential restraining force was formed against the main leaders by specifically analyzing their strengths and weaknesses.The disciplinary supervision of the party and state organs was strengthened by the combined efforts of the internal and external top and bottom.The third part elaborates the contemporary revelations of Lenin’s ideas on the construction of ruling parties in his later years.Although Lenin’s exploration of ruling party construction in his later years could not be further practiced and developed due to his personal health and national institutional factors,Lenin’s ideas on ruling party construction in his later years greatly enriched the Marxist theory of ruling party,which is still of great significance to us today.By analyzing the background and main contents of Lenin’s ideas on building a ruling party in his later years,we are more determined to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party in the new era and give full play to the greatest advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics;to govern the Party comprehensively and strictly,to liaise closely with the masses,to adhere to the Party’s selfrevolution and promote the new great project of Party building in the new era;to carry forward the fine tradition of attaching importance to learning,to adhere to the guiding position of Marxism We should strive to build a Marxist learning party in the new era.