Building Party culture in the new period
Professor Dr. Dinh Xuan Dung believes that many party members and officials at different levels are disciplined because they lack culture and do not have the capacity to regulate themselves using the power of cultural values.
On January 15, the Central Propaganda Department coordinated with the Central Theoretical Council, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the Truth National Political Publishing House and a number of agencies to organize the National Scientific Conference "Theoretical and practical issues on building Party culture in the new period".
The role of culture is sometimes not properly appreciated and promoted.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang - Member of the Politburo, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council affirmed that in the 95-year history of the Party leading the Vietnamese revolution, through the eras of struggle for independence and national unification, the era of innovation, integration and development, culture in the Communist Party of Vietnam has always been an important part, crystallizing the best and most pioneering values of Vietnamese national culture.
According to Mr. Thang, in addition to the great achievements, it is necessary to recognize that the task of building culture in the Party still has many limitations and shortcomings. The role of culture in building the Party and the political system has not been properly respected and promoted in some places. The content and methods of building culture in the Party have not received due attention.
There are even Party committees and Party members who have not paid attention to the task of building Party culture and have not been resolute and thorough in managing Party members. In particular, the situation of corruption and negativity has become complicated, serious, and sophisticated, causing outrage in society.
"There are cadres and party members, including high-ranking Party officials, who lack courage, lack self-cultivation, have degraded in ideology, morality, and lifestyle, are tempted, bribed, and rush into unclear interests, and do not fulfill their duties and responsibilities to the Party, State, and people," said Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang.
At the workshop, Mr. Thang suggested that delegates look back at the historical stages of the 95 years of the Party's leadership of the Vietnamese revolution, including 40 years of the Party's leadership of the country's renovation, clarify the scientific basis for unifying the perception of the role and importance of building culture within the Party in the work of Party building and rectification, building political culture and building an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity; Summarize and evaluate specific tasks in implementing culture building within the Party; Propose and recommend goals, directions and methods of building culture within the Party in accordance with the new context.
The regulatory role of culture is very important.
Professor Dr. Dinh Xuan Dung believes that the regulatory role of culture is very important, especially in dealing with the relationship between good and bad, beauty and ugliness, purity and greed, nobility and baseness, good and evil... to minimize degradation. In the past, many party members and cadres at different levels were disciplined because of lack of culture and inability to regulate themselves with the power of cultural values. Therefore, it is necessary to educate and train cadres and party members to nurture cultural values in the personality of party members and the ability to apply those values to regulate their lives, thoughts and actions.
"We must build cultural conventions and sanctions to implement them. Living, working... according to the law is a legal requirement. Living, working, and living according to cultural values and standards is voluntary. Therefore, I would like to use "cultural conventions" and not regulations or directives. When the convention is agreed upon, there will be sanctions to ensure that the convention is implemented," Mr. Dung stated his opinion.
Speaking at the workshop, Major General Nguyen Ba Duong - former Director of the Institute of Military Social Sciences and Humanities, Ministry of National Defense, reiterated President Ho Chi Minh's views on our Party and emphasized "if you make people believe, they will follow".
Mr. Duong further analyzed that building Party culture means "having to be exemplary, doing what one says, setting an example". If cadres and Party members violate discipline, do not set an example, or are corrupt, "there is nothing we can say".
In his concluding remarks at the workshop, Politburo member, Party Central Committee Secretary, Head of the Party Central Committee's Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized that in order to promote the work of building culture within the Party, contributing to building a truly clean and strong Party, meeting the requirements of tasks in the new period, it is necessary to carry out many key tasks and solutions.
In particular, Mr. Nguyen Trong Nghia mentioned the strict implementation of regulations on setting examples for cadres and party members, especially leaders and heads at all levels in the political system. Proactively detect, combat, prevent and repel signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation", corruption, waste and negative behavior; at the same time, promote more effectively the role and responsibility of the subjects, especially the role and responsibility of Party committees and heads of Party committees at all levels in implementing cultural development in the Party.
"Strengthening inspection and supervision of the implementation of cultural building in the Party, associated with evaluation, classification, reward, discipline... of Party organizations and Party members, creating a fundamental shift in the self-awareness and responsibility of each Party organization and Party member in building and practicing cultural values in the Party," Mr. Nguyen Trong Nghia affirmed.
The Head of the Central Propaganda Department also requested to focus on strengthening the protection of the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous, hostile, distorted, and defamatory views of the Party's good cultural values; resolutely and persistently attacking and defeating the "peaceful evolution" plots and tricks of hostile forces.
