Today is the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, just one day away from the May 4th Youth Day. How to understand and bloom youth with the spirit of Marxism? What kind of sparks will the collision between youth and history spark?
youth
Youth is not an age, but a spirit.
When Kissinger faced Deng Xiaoping, who was over eighty years old, he was very impressed:
I know you are the oldest politician in China, but I don’t know who is younger than you in China.
People can do this, so can a political party.
The Communist Party of China (CPC), founded in 1921, is nearly a hundred years old, but as the Supreme Leader General Secretary said:
"the Communist Party of China (CPC) is determined to be a great cause of the Chinese nation, and a hundred years is just the heyday."
Only by making thoughts and actions always face the future will there be infinite youth beyond the rings of life.
The first edition of the communist party Declaration in German.
Marxism is a youthful thought, and communism is a youthful action.
revolution
Discover and build a new world in "criticizing the old world"
The first edition of Das Kapital in German
Marxism regards materialist dialectics as its fundamental method to understand and transform the world.
The position of materialism makes Marxism regard "problems as the motto of the times".
Marxism not only never fears and avoids contradictions, but also regards contradictions as the driving force of world development, and advocates seeking truth from facts in the process of understanding the world. In the process of transforming the world, it does not use "critical weapons" to replace "weapon criticism", but advocates that "material power can only be destroyed by material power".
The spirit of dialectics is that it "does not worship anything, but is critical and revolutionary in essence". Marxism, which adheres to dialectics, never wants to and will not "predict the future dogmatically", but can only constantly discover and build a new world by "criticizing the old world".
communist movement
Communism never exists only in the future, but at the foot of each of us.
In 1835, students from Bonn University painted a realistic portrait of 17-year-old Marx, which is the earliest video material about Marx so far. (Screenshot from CCTV feature film "Searching for Marx")
Communism is a belief about the future society and a scientific theory that reveals the conditions for realizing human liberation, but communism is first and foremost a movement, "a movement that eliminates the reality of the existing situation."
In other words, communism does not exist only in the future, but at the feet of each of us. As long as you like, you can start and join the torrent of the communist movement at any time. This kind of sports is not a career of "working for oneself", but a career of "working for mankind best".
From that moment on, "what we enjoy is not poor, limited and selfish fun, and our happiness will belong to millions of people." Taking the future of mankind as a coordinate to measure everyone’s individual life, in the lofty cause of human liberation, our cause will always bloom in youth.
Young Marx wrote in his poem:
"Don’t waste time in fantasy, don’t hesitate in shackles, as long as we are ambitious and eager, we can start a career."
Youth is beautiful because of struggle. Revolutionaries are always young.
Author/Gao Ning Xue Jiacheng (Unit: Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Learning Society)
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