Lesson 1: The development of political theory and the creative spirit of a genuine revolutionary party

Persistently and steadfastly defend the political line of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Over the past 94 years, the Communist Party of Vietnam has been born, accompanied and led our nation and people to overcome countless difficulties and challenges to achieve glorious feats of arms in the resistance wars and great achievements in the cause of innovation, construction, protection and development of the country. That has deep roots in the scientific and revolutionary theoretical foundation and correct political line of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Our Party was born in the revolutionary "storm" and has grown steadily.

As the founder,educator and trainer of our Party, President Ho Chi Minh affirmed that our Party is a genuine revolutionary party. The great victory of the August Revolution in 1945, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was born with the immortal Declaration of Independence written and read by President Ho Chi Minh himself before the nation on September 2, 1945 at Ba Dinh Square. From then on, our Party officially assumed the position of the ruling party, leading the State and society.

Since the Party was founded, the history of the nation has been closely linked to the glorious history of the Party's revolutionary struggle. The long-term resistance war against French colonialism was victorious, with the peak being Dien Bien Phu, and Viet Bac, followed by the revolutionary cause of national liberation in the South and the building of socialism in the North, creating a great rear base for the great frontline.

In 1960, when our Party turned 30 years old, President Ho Chi Minh emphasized: “Our Party is the offspring of the working class”, “The history of the Party is a golden history”, “Our Party is morality, is civilization”. The Party has no intrinsic purpose, the Party was born and operates only for the people, for the country, for independence, freedom and socialism. Apart from the interests of the working class, the nation and the people, the Party has no other interests. The Party is for the people, so the people follow the Party, wholeheartedly trust the Party, and proudly call the Party our Party, our Party. The deep source that creates the strength of the Party and the Vietnamese revolution is the strength of the people - the most important social foundation of the Party.

Our Party was born in the revolutionary "storm" and has grown steadily. Illustration photo: dangcongsan.vn

The renovation process with the renovation policy initiated by the Party at the 6th Congress (December 1986) is a new milestone in the annals of the Party. The renovation in the direction of socialism has gone through a journey of nearly 40 years with great achievements of historical significance. "Party's will - people's heart - national law" are closely intertwined, with the power of liberation, with the power of development according to the instructions of President Ho Chi Minh, quickly reviving the country and reviving the nation so that we can have the foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today!

The maturity of the Party's theoretical awareness

Innovation in Vietnam is innovation in the direction of socialism. It is innovation with principles, appropriate steps, guided by correct political direction and creative methods.

Right in the early years of renovation, amidst the complicated international context and the extremely difficult domestic situation due to the severe socio-economic crisis in the mid-1980s, people's lives were very difficult, the confidence of a part of the people declined, our Party made every effort to take advantage of the opportunity, bravely confront the challenges to calmly overcome them. We must proactively innovate, first of all, to innovate thinking, change the way of thinking to change the way of doing things.

Our Party emphasizes that, first of all, it is necessary to renew economic thinking, abolish the centralized bureaucratic mechanism and administrative orders in the management and administration of the centrally planned economy, gradually test and apply the market mechanism, and develop a multi-sector commodity economy. The subsidized and egalitarian distribution method has weakened and eliminated the driving force for development and is also inconsistent with the principle of social justice that has been overcome by the market mechanism, following the law of value and competition, respecting the personal interests of workers, and harmonizing the relationships of personal, collective and social interests.

Along with liberating the productive forces, our Party, in the early years of renovation, focused on liberating spiritual consciousness, implementing comprehensive democratization of all areas of life, ensuring that the people exercise and promote their true mastery. That is the correct and creative ideological viewpoint of the Party, and is a very important starting point for forming the Party's new theoretical awareness of socialism and the path to socialism in our country.

Market economy and democracy are two important driving forces for innovation, quickly creating new vitality, dynamism and creativity for our society and people. This is also the correct and consistent political viewpoint of the Party in economic leadership, social management, creatively applying the role of politics and political theory as both a science and an art in social development under the light of innovation thinking.

The Platform for National Construction in the Transitional Period to Socialism in 1991 and the Supplementary and Developed Platform in 2011 shaped the Party's thinking on democracy and building socialist democracy, on the political system and innovation, and improving the quality of the political system's operations. For the first time, at the 5th Central Conference of the 9th tenure (2002), our Party issued a specialized Resolution on the political system at the grassroots level, implementing the Grassroots Democracy Regulations (1998) and the Ordinance on implementing democracy in communes, wards and towns, which was passed by the National Assembly Standing Committee in 2007.

By the 13th Congress (2021), the Grassroots Democracy Charter had been supplemented and fully developed with the democratic rights and mastery of the people as owners of society, as subjects of innovation. From affirming "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect" to affirming "people supervise, people enjoy" is a big step forward in the perception and implementation of democracy in our country. The idea of strengthening and controlling the power of the people is also affirmed in the Law on Implementing Democracy at the Grassroots, passed by the 15th National Assembly and officially taking effect in life as a law, significantly improving the legality compared to previous regulations and ordinances.

Firmness of the ruling party

Overcoming many difficulties and challenges, through revolutionary leadership, our Party's mettle has been tempered and increasingly steadfast. That is demonstrated through the following core points.

First, firmly uphold the ideal and goal of national independence associated with socialism. Firmly move forward on the chosen path, bypassing the capitalist regime and gradually moving towards socialism.

Second, affirm and resolutely defend Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought as the ideological foundation of the Party, the compass for the actions of the Vietnamese revolution. Defend by creative development, not rigidity or dogmatism. Be creatively loyal, not mechanical, stereotyped, copying, or imitating; dialectical, not metaphysical.

To be creative, we must develop and develop theory based on practice (Vietnam and the world), making theory rich and lively in practice, not rigid, with the breath of practical life, capable of being a pioneering theory leading the way, then we can show our loyalty. We must fight uncompromisingly against the distortions of hostile forces, both trying to overcome old dogmas (subjectivism and voluntarism) and proactively preventing falling into new dogmas, one-sidedly praising capitalism, denying socialism, Ho Chi Minh's thought and the Party's guidelines.

Third, persistently and firmly maintain and protect the Party's leadership and ruling position, do not lose political direction and fall into bourgeois ideology, promote pluralism, multi-party system and separation of powers in building a rule-of-law state.

Fourth, it is reflected in the Party's strategic vision, proactively integrating internationally, overcoming stagnation, conservatism, and dogmatism, while not falling into extremism, one-sidedness, or deviating from practical, historical-concrete, and developmental perspectives. It is impossible to develop if we turn ourselves into an island, closed off, isolated from the outside world, but it is also impossible to develop positively and healthily if we abandon socialism and pursue a capitalist-style market economy with a bourgeois political system, regardless of its negative aspects and consequences.

We cannot, for profit at all costs, harm society, degrade morality, and lose our national cultural identity and traditions in integration. Our Party emphasizes that we must integrate without losing ourselves, integrate without dissolving, and innovate without changing color. We must maintain our ideological foundation, steadfastly adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought, and socialism with a scientific-revolutionary-humanistic nature.

Over three-quarters of a century of continuous rule, upholding the courage of self-criticism, looking straight at the truth, clearly stating the truth, correctly assessing the truth, upholding the lesson of respecting objective laws and the lesson of taking the people as the root, relying on the people to build the Party, today, our Party considers Party building as the key, focusing on building the Party in terms of politics, ideology, ethics, organization and cadres. In essence, that is also building the Party in terms of culture in the most comprehensive and broadest sense of the concept of culture, making culture with the system of values of truth-goodness-beauty permeate deeply into the political life of the Party, in the ethics, lifestyle and personality of each cadre and Party member.

The above presentations show that the Party strives to renew itself to promote social renewal. The practice of renewal has led to new awareness and creative innovative thinking of the Party, forming the scientific and revolutionary theoretical system of our Party on Vietnamese socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam.

It is the combination of world universality with Vietnamese specificity to perceive the characteristics, nature, and driving force of socialism development, the goals, directions, and solutions for building socialism in Vietnam, from socialist orientation to shaping socialism in Vietnam through innovation and integration to develop and modernize the country.

From the 6th Congress (1986) to the 13th Congress (2021) and now, it can be said that the achievements in developing the theory of socialism and the path to socialism in our country are a system of viewpoints and principles, comprehensively and richly expressed in the Party's guidelines, institutionalized into laws and policies, and put into practice in economic, political, social, cultural, national defense, security, and foreign affairs life, bringing the country to develop both in terms of position and strength as it is today, opening up good prospects for the country's development, realizing the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country in the middle of the 21st century, for the nation to be strong and long-lasting.

The key is the 8 characteristics of socialist society, 8 directions for building socialism, 10 major relationships, defining the model of building socialism in Vietnam with 3 pillars: Socialist-oriented market economy, Socialist rule of law state, socialist democracy from orientation to formation. Those are the basic features of Vietnamese socialism, a new realistic socialism born in innovation according to the law, in accordance with the people's will, in line with the times under the guidance of President Ho Chi Minh.

( According to qdnd.vn )

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