Adhering to the truth and opposing extremes should be the goal that the country and each of us strive to pursue. What is the essence of Mao Zedong Thought? I think the two best articles are "practical theory" and "contradictory theory".

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Adhering to the truth and opposing extremes should be the goal that the country and each of us strive to pursue.

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What is the essence of Mao Zedong Thought? I think the two best articles are "practical theory" and "contradictory theory". Deng Xiaoping Theory is the inheritance and extension of Mao Zedong Thought in terms of real knowledge in practice and the contradictory unity of opposites.

If you have really read the works of two great men, you can clearly see the inheritance and consistency of their philosophical thoughts.

What is the essence of Deng Xiaoping Theory? I think is the eight words "Emancipate the mind and seek truth from facts." These eight words apply in the past, the present, and the future also apply. It can be said that they are eight words that are difficult for a lifetime. A hundred years later, these eight words still apply.

What is emancipating the mind? It means not being restricted by past thinking, not being restricted by past dogmas, and forming your own judgment based on actual conditions and the latest information. Don’t be afraid of doing something wrong, dare to think, dare to do, dare to try.

"Two whatevers" are definitely not liberating the mind. Holding a quote, speaking every day, every month, every year, undoubtedly does not belong to emancipating the mind. I think that a book of XX can solve all problems in the world, not liberate the mind; when interpreting the constitution, pursuing originalism and judging the current affairs, we must restore the original intention of the constitutional makers or the original meaning of the constitutional text, not liberate the mind.

takes out a passage from Comrade Xiaoping’s speech decades ago, and still thinks it is an irreversible truth decades later. In fact, it does not belong to emancipating the mind.

It is clearer to seek truth from facts. When making decisions and making judgments, we must base ourselves on actual conditions and do not ignore objective reality and make subjective conjectures. How bold a person is and how rich the land is, it is definitely not a realistic attitude.

Similarly, copying another system, thinking that it can solve all problems in China, without considering China's national conditions and actual situation, it is not a realistic attitude. Another great thing about Comrade Xiaoping is that he adheres to the truth and opposes extremes. One of the centers in Deng Xiaoping's theory is that it focuses on economic development. Two basic points: adhere to the four basic principles and adhere to reform and opening up.

only mentions the four basic principles of , and does not mention reform and opening up; or only mention reform and opening up, and does not mention the four basic principles, none of them represent Comrade Xiaoping's point of view.

In the Deng Xiaoping era, there were 1 billion people with 900 million businessmen, who dared to make a breakthrough in economic development, took a bigger step, and had a big explosion of social vitality; there were also severe crackdowns in 1983, governance and rectification in the late 1980s and repeated emphasis on discipline. Some people do not learn from dialectical materialism , do not talk about the unity of opposition and one-sided understanding of Deng Xiaoping Theory.

Comrade Xiaoping has said a lot about expanding reform and opening up, and a lot about the four basic principles. Read Comrade Xiaoping’s article, the deepest impression I was that I took the middle route. There are both criticisms and criticisms of the left. is also why some friends who use commemoration of Comrade Xiaoping to promote their views can always find some sentences that support their views from Comrade Xiaoping's articles. Then, one-sidedly quoted Comrade Xiaoping's remarks from one aspect and one-sidedly explained Comrade Xiaoping's views. Many friends who have never actually read the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, or even the full text of the article, have a wrong understanding of Comrade Xiaoping's position.

Today in China, I think we are still sticking to the direction pointed out by Comrade Xiaoping to us and moving forward and taking the middle route. Some so-called "leftists" attacks on Comrade Xiaoping are completely unreasonable.

Comrade Xiaoping quoted a lot of words about the remarks on the reform and opening up side. Let me quote a few remarks about the four basic principles. The original source of the four words "not going to the evil path" should be Comrade Xiaoping's speech in 1985:

"The purpose of socialism is to make the people of the whole country prosperous, not polarization. If our policies lead to polarization, we will fail; if some new bourgeois is produced, then we will really go to the evil path.” (", one depends on ideals and two, one depends on discipline to unite ", 1985)

common prosperity is also what Comrade Xiaoping repeatedly emphasized:

"Public ownership accounts for the main body and common prosperity is the fundamental principle of socialism that we must adhere to. "

The "stability maintenance" that some people hate is actually the focus that Comrade Xiaoping repeatedly emphasizes:

" The first point is that China can only follow the path of socialism. Article 2: China needs to carry out four modernization constructions, and it is impossible to do without a stable political situation. If China wants to achieve four modernizations and get rid of backwardness, it must have a stable and united political situation, and must build with leadership and orderly. ” ("China can only follow the socialist road", March 3, 1987)

In the circle of friends, some friends often see this sentence "We have both 'left' interference and right interference, but the biggest danger is 'left'." But what is the source and complete version of this sentence? The original text is as follows:

" There is also right interference. In summary, is completely westernized . Under the banner of supporting opening up and reform, we want to guide China to capitalism . This rightist tendency is not to truly support reform and opening up policies, but to change the nature of our society. Once China has completely Westernized and capitalism is engaged in capitalism, the four modernizations will definitely not be realized. China needs to solve the poverty problem of one billion people and the development problem of one billion people. If capitalism is engaged, a few people may become rich, but a large number of people will be in poverty for a long time, and there will be a revolution in China. China can only rely on socialism to carry out modernization, not capitalism. In history, some people want to engage in capitalism in China, but it always doesn't work. Although we have made mistakes in socialism, in general, it has changed the face of China. We have both "left" interference and right interference, but the biggest danger is "left". is used to it, and people's thoughts are not easy to change. For young people, the right thing is worthy of vigilance, especially because they do not know what capitalism is and what socialism is, so they should be educated. ” ("Abuse of historical experience and prevent erroneous tendencies", 1987)

Comrade Xiaoping's attitude is very clear. It is not feasible to engage in capitalism in China. If capitalism is engaged in widening, the gap between the rich and the poor will widen, and there will be a revolutionary problem in China. The biggest danger is "left", but for young people in 1987, the right thing is worthy of vigilance. The passage of

is obviously a stubborn attitude, opposing "left", and by the police Beware of "right". After being taken out of context, it is completely different from the original meaning.

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Learn Deng Xiaoping Theory. If you don't have time to read Deng Xuan, just read the speech on the Southern Tour.

Other speeches, because of different occasions and different purposes, some speeches emphasize the "four basic principles" side, and some speeches emphasize the "reform and opening up" side.

's speech on the Southern Tour covered both basic points in a relatively comprehensive way. The speech reflected the contradictory unity of opposition and dialectics of materialism.

The core of the speech on the Southern Tour was to adhere to "one center, two basic points". Not adhering to socialism, not reform and opening up, not developing the economy, and not improving people's lives, it would be a dead end.

A center is centered on economic development. . does not adhere to socialism, not being able to develop the economy, and not improving people's lives. As a last resort, the country should not talk about war easily and should not shift the country's focus to other places. Today, China's military expenditure accounts for much lower than that of the United States. The country's focus is very obvious, and it is still economic development and improving people's living standards.

In the speech on the Southern Tour, it emphasized both policy stability and courage to venture and try. It is very important to give the people of the whole country a stable policy expectation.

Policy On the one hand, we must be stable: the basic policies of urban and rural reform must be stable for a long time. Of course, with the development of practice, we must improve what should be improved and repair what should be repaired, but we must always be unswerving. Even if there is no new idea, it is OK, that is, don’t change, and don’t make people feel that the policies have changed. With this, China has great hope.

On the other hand, you must dare to take risks and dare to try: you must be more courageous in reform and opening up, dare to experiment, and you cannot be like a woman with small feet. If you see it correctly, try it boldly and break through. Don’t take any risks, you will be 100% sure of anything you do, and you will be foolproof. Who dares to say such things? I was self-righteous from the beginning and thought it was 100% correct. It wasn't that true, and I never thought it was that way. Every year, the leadership must summarize experience, persist in what is right, correct what is wrong, and solve new problems as soon as possible.

The speech of the Southern Tour emphasized: We must continue to open up and absorb the advantages of Western society. Western technologies, products, concepts, and management methods can be brought in as long as they are conducive to the development of productivity. But when introducing, we also need to remove the drought and preserve the essence. There is no need to introduce the dregs that are of no use to develop productivity. It is absolutely wrong to rather have the grass of socialism than the seedlings of capitalism. But there is no need to introduce the grass of capitalism.

In order to win the advantages compared with capitalism, socialism must boldly absorb and learn from all the civilized achievements created by human society, and absorb and learn from all advanced business methods and management methods that reflect the laws of modern socialized production in countries in the world today, including developed capitalist countries.

The speech of the Southern Tour emphasized: Some people are encouraged to get rich first, but at the same time, to avoid polarization. Rich areas should pay more taxes to support the development of poor areas. Of course, it is natural for the rich to pay more taxes.

"If the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, polarization will arise, and the socialist system should and can avoid polarization. One of the solutions is to make the rich areas pay more profits and taxes and support the development of poor areas."

emphasized in the speech on the Southern Tour: Beware of the right, and beware of the left at the same time. What is left. Comrade Xiaoping also gave a definition: reform and opening up cannot be equated with the introduction of capitalism. The risks of peaceful evolution in the economic sector cannot be emphasized. Therefore, attacks on the entire "rich" and "entrepreneurs" group of exaggerated facts, personal attacks in the economic field, and political labels are "left".

Right can ruin socialism, and "left" can also ruin socialism. China should be vigilant about the right, but mainly to prevent "left". There are things on the right, and turmoil is on the right! There are also things that are "left". To describe reform and opening up as the introduction and development of capitalism, we believe that the main dangers of peaceful evolution come from the economic field, and these are "left".

Everyone believes that the speech of the Southern Tour is a charge of reform and opening up. But there are discipline and constraints in it. The speech requires: resolutely crack down on crime and eliminate corrupt things, adhere to the dictatorship of the proletariat, and fight against bourgeois liberalization, :

We must insist on grasping both sides, focusing on reform and opening up on the one hand, and combating all kinds of criminal activities on the other hand. Both hands must be hard. Crack down on all kinds of criminal activities and eliminate all kinds of ugly phenomena, and are in ruthless. After

was opened, some decadent things also came in, and ugly phenomena also occurred in some places in China, such as drug use, prostitution, economic crimes, etc. We must pay attention to grasping it well, resolutely ban and crack down on it, and never allow it to develop.

In the entire process of reform and opening up, we must always pay attention to adhering to the four basic principles. Sixth Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China I proposed that it will take twenty years to oppose bourgeois liberalization, and now it seems that more than twenty years have passed. The bourgeois liberalization is rampant and the consequences are extremely serious.

A large part of the speech on the Southern Tour talks talk about upholding the dictatorship of the proletariat, defending socialism, and preventing peaceful evolution. But at the same time, there is also self-reflection:

relies on the dictatorship of the proletariat to defend the socialist system, which is a basic view of Marxism. Implement democracy on the people and dictatorship on the enemy, this is the people's democratic dictatorship. Using the power of the people's democratic dictatorship and consolidating the people's regime is a just thing, and there is no place to lose.

Imperialism has undergone peaceful evolution and puts its hopes on generations to come. The older generation of us are powerful, and the hostile forces cannot change it.But after we old people are sad, who will take care of us? Therefore, we must educate our military well, educate our dictatorship institutions well, educate Communist Party members well, and educate the people and the youth well.

Both of them failed, and they were not economically problems, but were both struggling against bourgeois liberalization. This cannot be given up.

I insist on quitting, just don’t make mistakes in my old age. The elderly have strengths, but they also have great weaknesses. The elderly are prone to stubbornness, so the elderly should also have some self-consciousness. The older you get, the more you don’t make mistakes in the end. The older you get, the more humble you become.

The speech on the Southern Tour also reflects Comrade Xiaoping’s firm belief in Marxism:

I firmly believe that more people in the world who support Marxism will increase because Marxism is science. It uses historical materialism to reveal the laws of human social development. Feudal society replaces slave society, capitalism replaces feudalism, and socialism will inevitably replace capitalism after a long process of development. This is an irreversible general trend of social and historical development, but the road is tortuous. How many dynasty restoration occurred in the hundreds of years when capitalism replaced feudalism? Therefore, in a certain sense, a temporary restoration is also a regular phenomenon that is difficult to completely avoid. Some countries have experienced serious twists and turns, and socialism seems to have been weakened, but the people have been trained and learned lessons from it will promote socialism to develop in a healthier direction. Therefore, don't panic, don't think that Marxism has disappeared, useless, and failed. How could this happen!

Comrade Xiaoping’s position is the middle position, the route he takes is the middle route. Today, some people speculate on the direction of the wind every day, feeling that the left wind will blow and the right wind will blow. Some policies were issued and common prosperity was called. After blocking a few liberal big Vs, I felt like I was going to turn left and shout WG again. After sealing off several radical leftists, I felt that the wind had turned again.

I think these are all speculations. To uphold the truth and adhere to the middle, we must both guard against the right and the left. This is the policy since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and also the policy that Comrade Xiaoping has always adhered to. When you go right, just go left; when you go left, just go right.

As long as you do things, you will inevitably make mistakes. You cannot be afraid or stagnant. Small mistakes are inevitable, but as long as you stick to the right and follow the middle route, you will not make big mistakes. Adhere to the intermediate route and not to go to extremes. It is what Comrade Xiaoping insists on, and it is also what Comrade Xiaoping's subsequent leaders have always insisted on.

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What is the goal set by Comrade Xiaoping for the country? In 1987, he wrote:

"Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, we formulated a series of new policies and practices have proved that these policies are correct. But after all, we are just taking steps. Our original goal was to double the first step in the 1980s. Based on 1980, the per capita GDP was only 250 US dollars, doubled to 500 US dollars. The second step was to double again by the end of this century, reaching one thousand US dollars per capita. Achieving this goal means we enter a well-off society and turn poor China into A well-off China. At that time, the GDP of the country exceeded one trillion US dollars. Although the per capita was still very low, the strength of the country increased greatly. The more important goal we set was the third step, which would double again in the next century in thirty to fifty years, and generally reach 4,000 US dollars per capita. By doing this, China would reach a moderately developed level. This is our ambition. The goal is not high, but it is not easy to do it."

Comrade Xiaoping gave the goal to 2030-50, the per capita GDP will reach 4,000 US dollars. In 2021, China's per capita GDP has exceeded US$12,000. However, the $4,000 in 1987 is not the same as the $4,000 in 2021.

Calculated at exchange rate In 1990, China's per capita GDP was US$318, which did not reach the target of US$500. In 2000, China's per capita GDP was US$960, which was a little short, but it still failed to meet Comrade Xiaoping's goal of US$1,000. Of course, based on purchasing power parity, it must be achieved.

In 2021, China's per capita GDP was US$12,556, and the world's per capita GDP was US$12,263. China is 102% of the world and has not yet reached the target of 116% of the world's per capita GDP. We have nine years left before 2030, and 29 years left before 2050. I believe that by 2030, there should be no problem in achieving the target of 116% of the world's per capita GDP.

The best way to commemorate Comrade Xiaoping is to exceed the goals that Comrade Xiaoping pointed out to us in 1987 before 2030. China's per capita GDP exceeds 116% of the world average. How to achieve this goal by

is to follow the middle route, relying on "emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and looking forward in unity."

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