Correct awareness of the people's role in the fight against 'self-evolution' and 'self-transformation'

The degradation of ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” have been and are increasingly penetrating into all aspects and areas of social life. This has also been clearly pointed out by our Party in many documents. Most recently, in the Resolution of the 13th National Congress, our Party pointed out: “A number of cadres and Party members have faded ideals, reduced will, are afraid of difficulties and hardships, have degraded ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, “self-evolution”, “self-transformation”...”. Along with that, our Party also recognized that the struggle to prevent and repel the degradation of ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” within the Party is taking place very fiercely and complicatedly, and is truly an urgent issue for the survival of our Party, State and regime.

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To step up the fight to prevent and repel the degradation of ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, and the manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”, we have to do many things, but first of all, there must be unity in perception. In current practice, there are still many people who believe that the degradation, “self-evolution”, and “self-transformation” in Vietnam only exists among cadres, party members, and those with positions and power… Therefore, the fight to prevent and repel the degradation of ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, and the manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” is the Party’s sole job… Such a perception is very wrong, vague and shows a lack of responsibility, especially not seeing the very important role of the people in this struggle.

It is necessary to affirm that the fight to prevent and repel the degradation of ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party is not only the responsibility of Party organizations, authorities, functional agencies, organizations, and socio-political organizations, but also the responsibility of the entire people and society.

Referring to the Party's ideal goals, President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: "Apart from the interests of the Fatherland and the people, our Party has no other interests." The practice of the Vietnamese revolution since the Party's leadership has clearly demonstrated that in order to fulfill its ideal goals, to survive and develop strongly, the Party must rely on the people. It is the people's struggle movement that is the cradle from which our Party was born, trained and developed. During the resistance war for national liberation and national reunification, it was thanks to the people's shelter, support, protection and advice that our Party grew stronger and stronger, leading the revolution from one victory to another.

The great achievements that our Party, State and people have achieved in more than 35 years of renovation, building and defending the country, further demonstrate the great role of the people. One of the profound and valuable lessons that our Party has drawn from the renovation is: Renovation must always thoroughly grasp the viewpoint that "people are the root", for the benefit of the people, rely on the people, promote the role of mastery, sense of responsibility, creativity and all resources of the people, promote the strength of great national unity...

The renovation, construction and defense of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in recent years has further affirmed the role of the people. The people's thoughts, aspirations; recommendations, proposals; inventions and initiatives arising from the practical labor, production and combat of the people are important factors contributing to the formation and completion of the Party's guidelines, policies and decisions. Not only contributing to the formation and completion, the people themselves are also the resource and strength to turn the Party's policies and decisions into life and become reality.

Vietnam has undergone a strong transformation after 35 years of renovation. Source: Internet

The struggle to prevent and repel ideological, political, moral and lifestyle degradation, and manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” within our Party in recent years has achieved many important results. Many manifestations of degradation, “self-evolution”, and “self-transformation”, especially many negative phenomena and corrupt behaviors of cadres and Party members have been discovered through the eyes and ears of the people. A very important factor that has created these results is that our Party has known how to promote the eyes and ears of the people.

President Ho Chi Minh once generalized and affirmed: "The people are the eyes and ears of the Party". It can be said that the people play a very important role in building and rectifying the Party and a clean and strong political system in general, in the fight to prevent and repel ideological, political, moral, and lifestyle degradation, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" in particular. This is a fierce, difficult and complicated struggle, requiring us to resolutely and synchronously implement many solutions, in which the role of the people cannot be underestimated. President Ho Chi Minh taught us: "A hundred times easier without the people, we can endure, ten thousand times harder with the people, we can do it". In that spirit, no matter how difficult or complicated the situation is, with the people, we will definitely overcome it, and the struggle to prevent and repel ideological, political, moral, and lifestyle degradation, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party will definitely achieve the set goals./.

Minh Ngoc