Remember Uncle Ho's words: Patriotic emulation

(Baonghean) -It has been 65 years since Uncle Ho wrote the Call for Patriotic Emulation (June 11, 1948), but until now that call is still valuable and relevant. The call for patriotic emulation that Uncle Ho specifically stated for each of our compatriots is forever the command of conscience, the responsibility for "scholars, farmers, workers, merchants, soldiers, men and women, old and young, all of our people, regardless of their position or job, must strive to participate in the patriotic emulation".

Patriotic emulation is both the origin and the direction; both national and revolutionary; both theoretical and practical; both emotional and doctrinal. Because emulation is pouring oil into the lamp of life, and the ideology of emulation is to light it up. Emulation is to motivate the spirit, mobilize material, mobilize human and financial resources. If in wartime, to carry out the national resistance, comprehensive resistance, both resistance and nation building, to make "our position and strength change", then in peacetime, it is to build and promote internal strength to develop the economy, "self-sufficient, self-sufficient to catch up with others".

Patriotic emulation means to raise the passionate patriotism and political awareness of everyone. “Emulation is patriotism, patriotism requires emulation” to “eliminate hunger, ignorance, and foreign invaders. That is, to make people full, warm, literate, and to make the Fatherland independent and free”. Thus, patriotic emulation inherits and promotes the heroic and indomitable tradition of the nation in the process of building and defending the country. Patriotic emulation has entered people’s hearts and transformed into great material strength.

Uncle Ho instructed about the emulation movement: Emulation must have the right leadership. Before the emulation, it is necessary to prepare fully (explain, encourage, carefully review the plan of each group, each person). During the emulation process, it is necessary to practically urge, help, and make corrections. After the emulation period, it is necessary to practically check and summarize, disseminate experiences, reward exemplary models, and support the incompetent. Based on the national and comprehensive nature of patriotic emulation, it is necessary to choose typical, diverse, and rich faces: emulation heroes, emulation soldiers, exemplary cadres, advanced workers, excellent workers, etc. This is the product of the policy of promoting revolutionary heroism of the masses, aiming to "promote emulation more widely, make everyone, no matter what they do, compete to achieve greater achievements, every industry competes to progress more strongly, learns and trains more heroes and soldiers".

Currently, we are continuing to deeply grasp and apply Uncle Ho's Call for Patriotic Emulation into the renovation process and the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country, to arouse patriotism, the emulation efforts of one person with another, one household with another, one village with another, one industry with another... Through the forms of commendation and conferment of the titles of heroes and emulation fighters, Uncle Ho's guidance on equalizing merit and reporting merit is the right direction in considering the emulation results of each individual and each collective in a fair manner, not looking at and evaluating the emulation results in a one-sided and emotional way. The key is to encourage competition, ensure the substance of competition, fight against formalism and false reporting in competition, ensure that patriotic competition is a sacred duty of society and the country, make competition promote the openness, democracy, and voluntariness of the masses, not competition in form, not forced, not narrow-minded, short-sighted.

We believe that: with the indomitable spirit and endless strength of the nation, with the patriotism and determination of our people, our country will become stronger and stronger; our nation will become more prosperous; our people will become happier because we have patriotic emulation according to Uncle Ho's ideology: "Absolutely loyal to the Party, to the Fatherland, to the people, must be truly united... Imbued with Uncle Ho's ideology on patriotic emulation, each agency, unit, and sector must promptly improve its organization and rectify its working style... In agencies, we must practice democracy, regularly conduct self-criticism and serious criticism, and help each other progress together". We think that reviewing Uncle Ho's teachings on patriotic emulation is also a practical way to learn and follow Uncle Ho's moral example.

Master Thai Khac Thu