Lenin was the leader of the Russian people in the successful October Revolution of 1917, establishing the first socialist state in the world . The legacy that Lenin left for progressive humanity is extremely great in both practical revolutionary activities and theory and ideology, including the issue of building a contingent of cadres.
In his work “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government”, Lenin pointed out the particularly important and urgent task of building a core team of leading cadres of the Communist Party and the State. According to Lenin, the selection of cadres, especially those holding leadership roles, must be people with good political qualities, working capacity or “professional prestige” and revolutionary ethics. He made specific requirements on the criteria when considering and evaluating cadres that need to be clarified: “a) In terms of honesty, b) In terms of political stance, c) In terms of understanding the work, d) In terms of management capacity”. He also stated that when selecting and arranging cadres, it must be based on “new standards, responding to new tasks” to suit the development of the country.
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| Leader Lenin. Photo: National Today |
Regarding the political qualities of cadres, Lenin considered this the top criterion, a particularly important task for the Party's cadre work. He stated: "Researching people, finding cadres with courage. Currently, that is the key; otherwise, all orders and decisions will be just a pile of waste paper". Lenin believed that selecting cadres with sufficient political qualities for leadership positions is a very careful and difficult step, so it is necessary to carefully study many aspects of cadres, avoiding one-sidedness and subjectivity.
The political qualities of a cadre are not only reflected in loyalty to the Party’s goals and ideals, loyalty to the State, the socialist regime and the interests of the nation, but also in the ability to effectively apply the Party’s and State’s guidelines and policies into life, that is, “turning decrees from a state of dusty waste paper… into living reality”. At the same time, cadres must have high discipline, always be self-conscious, and resolutely fight to “cleanse” their own and their organization’s bad habits, in order to purify the Party internally.
In building the cadre team, Lenin attached great importance to training and fostering, linking theory with practice, and requiring each cadre and party member to "study, study more, study forever". Lenin pointed out: "One can only become a communist when one knows how to enrich one's mind with the understanding of all the treasures of knowledge that mankind has created". Lenin was not only interested in the self-training and self-cultivation of the cadre team in schools, through books, but also in training and fostering in a practical environment, in leadership and management activities and learning from the experiences of bourgeois experts. He made a request to dismiss cadres who refused to study to become good leaders and managers.
Regarding the work of evaluating and selecting leaders, Lenin always emphasized the need to ensure transparency, objectivity, and honesty; to rely on the masses and obtain information from the masses. He advised: "The masses must have the right to change their leaders, must have the right to understand and inspect every smallest step in the activities of those people". The selection, arrangement and rotation of cadres was especially important to Lenin. He pointed out an important principle in the selection and arrangement of cadres: "putting the right person in the right job", "firmly grasping the apparatus in which they are placed, not the apparatus holding them". At the same time, Lenin clearly stated that there must be rotation of cadres with the specific method of sending high-ranking cadres from the Central to work in the localities.
Taking care of building a contingent of cadres, Lenin also pointed out the motto of ensuring continuity and a reasonable social structure. Accordingly, Lenin advised the Party to attract young people, women, and ethnic minorities to participate more in political work, economic and social management. When selecting young cadres, female cadres, and newly recruited party members to assign tasks, attention must be paid to their ability to lead practical work, avoiding stereotypes and dogmatism.
In personnel work, especially before each Party Congress, Lenin required careful selection of good cadres for the revolution. Resolutely and “uncompromisingly” fight against bureaucracy, corruption, dogmatism, “communist arrogance” and all manifestations of degradation and opportunism; must “expel from the Party those who are cunning, those who have become bureaucratized, dishonest, weak-willed communists” and all those who “have infiltrated the Party” and “obstruct the Party’s struggle.”
The practice of the Vietnamese revolution shows that our Party and President Ho Chi Minh have successfully applied Lenin's ideology and theory on building a contingent of cadres to the process of organizing and building our Party, leading our people to make victories of historical significance in the cause of national liberation revolution, building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.
Currently, our Party is preparing for the Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Party Congress, in the context of many unpredictable changes in the world situation. One of the Party's key tasks is personnel work with the building of a contingent of cadres, especially strategic-level cadres, who are the Party's elite, requiring them to be truly steadfast, have sufficient mettle, qualities, capacity, intelligence, and high prestige to undertake and successfully complete assigned tasks. Our Party considers this the "key" of "key" tasks, related to the fate of the Party, the survival of the regime, and the cause of building, developing, and defending the country in the new situation.
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Head of the 14th Party Congress Personnel Subcommittee, clearly stated the requirement: The Congress personnel work must be carried out according to a strict, scientific and consistent process, ensuring true fairness, transparency and objectivity, especially "having a discerning eye" in evaluating, introducing and selecting exemplary Party comrades in terms of political mettle, moral qualities and working capacity; ensuring the general standards of cadres; must have both virtue and talent, in which virtue is the root. At the same time, resolutely not include in the planning cadres who show signs of degradation in political ideology, morality, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation", "group interests", disunity, causing internal turmoil, political opportunism like "eels and loach".
That is also the loyalty and creative application of Lenin's ideology and viewpoints on building a contingent of cadres, contributing to building our Party into a Party of "intelligence, honor and conscience of the times", worthy of the trust and expectations of our entire Party, people and army.
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