1978 "Emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, unite and move forward"

Emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, unite as one and look forward "as the basic guiding ideology of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, its main contents are:

First, the relationship between emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts is clarified, and it is emphasized that seeking truth from facts must first emancipate the mind. Emancipating the mind is the requirement and premise of seeking truth from facts, and seeking truth from facts is the purpose and destination of emancipating the mind. The two are unified with each other. Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "Emancipate your mind, use your head, seek truth from facts, unite as one and look ahead. The first is to emancipate the mind. Only by emancipating the mind can we correctly solve the problems left over from history and a series of new problems under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, correctly reform the production relations and superstructure that are incompatible with the rapid development of productive forces, and determine the specific roads, principles, methods and measures to realize the four modernizations according to the actual situation in China. "

Second, it emphasizes the connotation and extreme importance of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts. Emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts means that we should use our brains, dare to break the ideological shackles, dare to think, explore and innovate, study new situations and solve new problems, explore the internal laws of the development and change of things according to objective reality, and act according to objective laws. Deng Xiaoping pointed out that if we don't emancipate our minds, rules and regulations will increase, the phenomenon of following the trend will increase, and bookishness divorced from reality will be serious. He stressed: "A party, a country and a nation, if everything starts from its roots, its thinking is rigid and superstition prevails, then it can't move forward, its vitality will stop and its party and country will perish. This was repeatedly said by Comrade Mao Zedong during the rectification movement. Only by emancipating the mind, persisting in seeking truth from facts, proceeding from reality and integrating theory with practice can our socialist modernization be carried out smoothly, and our Party's Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought's theory can also develop smoothly. " "Seeking truth from facts is the basis of the proletarian world outlook and the ideological basis of Marxism. All the victories of our revolution in the past depended on seeking truth from facts; To realize the four modernizations now, we must also rely on seeking truth from facts. "

The third is to point out that "democracy is an important condition for emancipating the mind". "Within the Party and among the people, the more people are willing to use their brains and think about problems, the better for our cause. To carry out revolution and construction, we must have a group of enterprising people who are brave in thinking, exploring and innovating. Without such a large number of brave fighters, we can't get rid of poverty and backwardness, and we can't catch up, let alone surpass the international advanced level. " How to mobilize the enthusiasm of thinking and thinking within the party and the people depends on promoting democracy. Deng Xiaoping stressed: "In the political life within the Party and among the people, we can only use democratic means, but not repression and repression. The civil rights, party member rights and party Committee members' rights stipulated by the Constitution and party constitution must be resolutely guaranteed, and no one can infringe upon them. " "In order to protect people's democracy, we must strengthen the legal system. Democracy must be institutionalized and legalized, so that this system and law will not change because of the change of leaders, and will not change because of the change of leaders' views and attention. "

Fourth, to solve problems left over from history, we should "look forward" and "study new situations and solve new problems". "Looking ahead, we must study new situations and solve new problems in time, otherwise we will not be able to move forward smoothly. We should study all aspects of the new situation and solve all aspects of new problems. Special attention should be paid to studying and solving problems in three aspects: management methods, management systems and economic policies. "

Deng Xiaoping's thought of "emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts" not only re-established the party's ideological line of seeking truth from facts, but also enriched and developed this ideological line, which is of great and far-reaching significance. Taking this as the guiding ideology, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party broke through the original topic of mainly discussing economic issues and held an important meeting to set things right and create a new situation in an all-round way. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee is another major turning point in the history of our party, which is related to the party's life and death.

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