Ye Zipeng: How does "adhering to the united front" make the CPC stand in the "C position" of the ruling party?
Beijing, 16 Jan (China News Service) -- How can the "Adherence to the United Front" make the CPC stand in the "C position" of the ruling party?
Author Ye Zipeng The first doctor of party building at Tsinghua University, teacher of the United Front Teaching and Research Department of the Party Building Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National School of Administration).
The Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the united front is a valuable historical experience accumulated over the past century, which must be cherished and upheld for a long time. As the magic weapon for the Communist Party of China to win the victory of the new-democratic revolution, the united front has supported the development of various undertakings of New China to this day. The historical evolution of the united front has fully embodied the basic law of integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, and has also demonstrated the quality of the development of the CPC's theory and practice in echoing the themes of the times and adapting to the changes of the times, prompting the CPC to always stand in the "C position" of the ruling party.
The Evolution and Evolution of the United Front and Political History
"The people's hearts and minds and the balance of forces are the key to determining the success or failure of the cause of the party and the people, and they are the greatest politics." A history of China's modern and contemporary revolution is a history of the continuous expansion and deepening of the united front. Specifically, in the historical stage from the founding of the Communist Party of China to the founding of New China, the united front under the leadership of the COMMUNIST Party mainly went through four stages: the national revolutionary united front, the workers' and peasants' main united front, the anti-Japanese national united front, and the people's democratic united front.
On October 31, 2018, primary and secondary school students visited the Chinese Memorial Hall of the Anti-Japanese War in Beijing. China News Service reporter Pan Xulin photographed
After the founding of New China, along with the Communist Party of China's grasp of national power, the connotation, form, and function of the united front underwent corresponding changes. At the beginning of the founding of New China, the united front was given a legal status in the political life of the country. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee attached greater importance to united front work, and the united front achieved rapid development, successively going through two stages: the people's democratic united front and the patriotic united front.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction and development of the united front has directly pointed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and this great dream is highly consistent with the internal purpose of the development of the theory and practice of the united front since the founding of the Communist Party of China. The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has carried out macroscopic exposition and micro guidance on the nature, status, role, essence and principles and methods of united front work, formed a comprehensive and complete system of united front ideological system, elevated the political superiority of the united front as a magic weapon to a strategic position in governing the country, effectively strengthened the CPC's position in the center of the circle in concentric circles, and consolidated the good situation of "the stars arching the moon".
On October 21, 2017, the Press Center of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on "The Party's United Front Work and the Party's Foreign Exchanges" at the Media Center in Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Summary of the indigenous formation and law of the united front
China's special national conditions determine that in the local political scene, if there is no political force that can represent the interests of the whole, it is bound to lead to disintegration and fragmentation; on the contrary, if the specific interests of all parties cannot be widely taken into account under the leadership of the political forces representing the interests of the whole, it will be impossible to coordinate the overall situation. It was under such conditions and backgrounds that the united front under the leadership of the Communist Party of China was born.
On December 31, 2021, the symposium on the publication of "Great Political Creation: China's New Party System" was held in Beijing. Compiled by the organizational forces of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the book sorts out the historical context of the development of China's new-type political party system, expounds the advantages and characteristics of this system, and looks forward to the development prospects of China's new-type political party system in the new era. China News Service reporter Zhao Jun photographed
Taking China's new party system, the basic system for handling and coordinating party relations in the united front, as an example, and looking at the development of political parties in the world from a broader perspective, it can be found that Britain has created a two-party system, France has created a multi-party system, the Soviet Union has created a one-party system, and China has built a new party system that is very different from the above three party systems. This brand-new political party system has broken the existing pattern of institutional types and provided reference for the development of the political party system in the vast number of late-developing countries under the new historical conditions. With the passing of the highlight moment of the "Washington Consensus", the "ruins" left by neoliberalism are in sharp contrast to the growth of China's national governance in recent years, and people who hold a relatively neutral position can realize that the existing party system in the West is not perfect, let alone the "end of human history".
Looking at the practical history of the CPC's leadership of the united front, the principles, tactics, scope, and targets of the united front are all in constant change and adjustment, but while "changing, we also adhere to the original intention of "changing", and "changing" and "changing" are each other's appearances, which is a dialectical and unified relationship. Due to changes in the internal and external environment, the principles and tactics adopted in the united front work at different stages, as well as the scope and targets of the united front work, are changing according to the situation. In the process of "change," the "constant" of the united front is mainly reflected in always serving the overall situation and playing the role of a blender and lubricant.
Strategic prospect and development picture of the united front
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "The essential requirement of united front work is great unity and great alliance, and what is solved is the problem of people's hearts and strength. This is a major strategic issue that our party must devote great thought to and great efforts to solve in governing the country. This provides a fundamental guideline for further doing a good job in united front work in the new era.
To build and develop the united front with a more proactive attitude and to be prepared for danger in times of peace, it is necessary to further understand and distinguish who the fundamental force of the ruling party is, who the allies are, who are the friends, who the enemies are, and who the enemies and friends are.
At the same time, it is necessary to accurately grasp the unity of principle and flexibility. The foothold of accurately grasping the unity of principle and flexibility is to correctly handle the relationship between "one" and "many". Among them, "one" means the consistency of socialism with Chinese characteristics, that is, the goal is the same, the banner is the same, the road is the same, etc., and "many" refers to the diversification of interest structure, group structure, lifestyle and value concept.
The discourse construction of the united front and the mission of scholars
At present, the interpretation of the positive correlation between the ACHIEVEMENTS and China's achievements and changes is still insufficient, and on this basis, as the united front of the CCP's magic weapon, its discourse power is also in a relatively weak state. To some extent, this can indeed be found in the thinking inertia of the Chinese philosophical and social science circles in the past "toddler stage" that has been confused by the hegemony of Western discourse, and it is difficult to escape the trap of "Western-centrism", but it also does reflect the "potential difference" in theoretical consciousness and institutional self-confidence in China for some time, often involuntarily using Western theories to nest and explain China's reality, which in turn not only limits the effective dissemination of "Chinese stories". It may also have a negative impact on the actual course of China's road development.
It is particularly important to systematically reflect on the "Westernization" tendency of the CCP's relevant research, including the united front, in terms of the framing of topics, the use of relevant concepts and research paradigms, value orientations and modes of thinking, and to get rid of the so-called political correct dogma of "the end of history" for some time. Only by realizing an epistemological revolution that liberates the universal laws of political development from a single Western form can we truly realize discursive self-reliance, academic self-consciousness, and theoretical self-confidence.
Needless to say, China's experience and the problems it faces are beyond the scope of the existing Western so-called "universal laws", or rather, It is no longer possible for China to rely solely on "Westernization" to sum up China's experience and deal with problems. As in the past, the "path dependence" of "the non-Western world has either moved closer to the Western model, or is in the transitional stage of stubbornly resisting the Western model, and there is no other choice" should be swept into the garbage heap of history, in the "era of theory is needed and must be able to produce theory", only by truly establishing self-confidence, activating local democratic theory and party theory, so that it can more appropriately answer theoretical questions, respond to practical challenges, and lead China's development. In order to win the right to speak in the theory and practice of world democracy and political parties that matches the reality of China's development, we can truly achieve a breakthrough in the monopoly of Western discourse.
In April 2021, aerial photography of the location of the Xibaipo Memorial Hall. Photo by Zhai Yujia, a reporter from China News Service
In March 1949, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China left Xibaipo. Mao Zedong looked at the majestic Taihang Mountains and said meaningfully: "Today is the day to enter Beijing to catch the examination." "The initial assumption of power is to catch up with the examination, and long-term governance is also to catch up with the examination, and the road of "catching up with the examination again" in the new century is not the CCP's "thousands of miles and single riding.". "If you can use the power of the multitude, you are invincible to the world; if you can use the wisdom of the multitude, you are fearless of the saints." Today, the united front led by the CPC has developed into a broad alliance of all socialist workers, builders of the socialist cause, patriots who support socialism, advocates for the reunification of the motherland, and patriots who are committed to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The united front, an important magic weapon for the CPC to defeat the enemy and win the victory of the country and to govern and rejuvenate the country, is constantly gathering consensus, rallying people's hearts, wisdom, and strength for the CPC to stand in the "C position" of ruling for a long time. (End)
Respondent Profiles:
Ye Zipeng: The first doctor of party building of Tsinghua University, a teacher of the United Front Teaching and Research Department of the Party Building Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), mainly researching the history and theory of the Communist Party of China, and publishing many articles in the central mainstream media such as Qiushi, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, and academic magazines such as "Chinese Youth Studies", "Ideological Education Research", and "Chinese Youth Social Sciences", and the chief editor of theoretical books was selected as the key publication of the 2021 theme publication of the Propaganda Department.
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