Using historical wisdom to promote the construction of clean culture in the new era
2022-04-21
Honest politics and curbing corruption are important topics in the course of human political civilization. People with lofty ideals at all times and in all countries have made unremitting efforts and sought from top to bottom, and precipitated rich ideological and theoretical crystallization, institutional practical experience and historical and cultural achievements. In order to strengthen the construction of a clean culture in the new era, we should extract the essence and draw wisdom from it, so that we can learn and apply critically and inherit synchronously, and draw lessons from transformation and innovation. Wuxi Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision of Jiangsu Province has integrated the good words and deeds of local honest and clean officials and family style stories into the construction of clean culture positions, and built a clean culture square according to local conditions. The picture shows that on April 16, the discipline inspection and supervision cadres of Xishan District of the city learned from the masses about the construction of clean culture at the clean culture square of Chunxing community, Dongting street. Huang xingshe Pingxiang Commission for Discipline Inspection and supervision of Jiangxi province gives full play to the advantages of local characteristics and clean cultural resources, and penetrates the requirements of integrity into the daily education, management and supervision of Party members and cadres. The picture shows party members and cadres in Anyuan Town, Anyuan District, the city visiting and studying in the exhibition hall of clean government construction during the Anyuan labor movement on April 18. Photographed by Deng Jianping Thousands of years of wisdom nourish the present, and a hundred years of experience enlighten people. To strengthen the construction of a clean culture in the new era, we should not only fully absorb the essence of the Chinese traditional culture, but also draw the spiritual strength from our party's hundred years' struggle. Chinese excellent traditional culture contains a strong gene of integrity. Since the emergence of political civilization, Chinese politicians and thinkers of all dynasties have been thinking about "what is cheap", asking "why to be cheap" and exploring "how to be cheap" for thousands of years. In terms of ideology and theory, they regard integrity as the foundation of national government, integrity as the key of official governance, integrity as the basis of Moral Governance, and "integrity" as the outline of the country and the success or failure of survival. In terms of system practice, promising people of all dynasties have promoted honesty by severe punishment and severe law, supervised honesty by supervision institutions, punished corruption and protected honesty by anti-corruption, improved the administration of officials, inspected hundreds of officials and strengthened discipline, and tirelessly explored the countermeasures and good prescriptions of honest politics. In terms of moral education, the fine words and deeds of honest and clean officials will last forever, the family style of ancient saints and sages will inspire future generations, and the folk songs of township theory praising honesty and belittling corruption will be sung from generation to generation. Throughout the history of anti-corruption, the founding monarch, the leader of ZTE and the reformers often attach great importance to it, and gradually promote political clarity and social prosperity through long-term meritorious efforts; However, with the passage of time and personnel changes, once these measures are relaxed, corruption will spread rapidly, the code of ethics will be relaxed, the law will lose its authority, and the prosperous era will also die out. In ancient times, a clean and honest government could only exist for a while but could not last long. The root causes are: first, the instrumentality is stronger than the purpose. Anti-corruption is more used as a tool to safeguard the rule of imperial power and the interests of the ruling class. The policy is uncertain and unstable, so that "the law comes from the monarch and the power is greater than the law"; Second, the rule of man is more important than the rule of law. The governance of a clean and honest government is influenced by the determination and will of the ruling party, subjective likes and dislikes and other factors, and highly depends on "saints and virtuous officials" and "master Qingtian", so that "people save political deeds and people die"; Third, the law enforcement is unfair and unequal, and the punishment of corruption is affected by non institutionalized factors such as consanguineous clans, crony clans, political strife and so on, so that "the law is not as good as dignitaries and the punishment is not as good as doctors". The failure to completely solve the problem of corruption within the regime is the fundamental reason why the feudal society for more than 2000 years has always been unable to jump out of the historical cycle of chaos control, rise and fall. The rate of jumping out of the historical cycle is related to the great cause of the party, the survival of the party, and the success or failure of China's socialist system. Understand the fundamental difference between the nature and purpose of the party and the ruling groups of previous dynasties. Our party serves the people wholeheartedly, always represents the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, has no special interests of itself, never represents any interest group, any power group, any privileged stratum's interests. Therefore, it has firm courage and strong spirit to carry out a profound self revolution and resolutely and thoroughly fight against all factors that damage the advanced nature and purity of the party. This goes far beyond the class limitations of the ruling groups of previous dynasties, such as "being loyal to the king and respecting the Lord" and "serving one person with the world". Understand the fundamental difference between the party's self revolution and the ancient anti-corruption. Over the past 100 years, our party has ensured the long-term prosperity and continuous growth of the party by developing people's democracy and accepting people's supervision outside the party and by comprehensively and strictly administering the party and promoting self revolution inside. This goes far beyond the political limitations of the ancient anti-corruption, such as the instrumentality, class, rule of man and so on. Understand the fundamental difference between the party's hundred year struggle and the cycle of ruling chaos in the feudal dynasty. Over the past 100 years, our party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups in writing the most magnificent epic in the history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years and painted a magnificent picture in the history of human development. This goes far beyond the historical limitation of "its prosperity is also vigorous and its death is also sudden". Focusing on the great changes that have not been seen in the world in a century, learn from the lessons of clean government governance in various countries, and enhance the institutional confidence in the construction of clean culture Today's world is undergoing major changes that have not been seen in a century. The international situation continues to undergo profound and complex changes, and the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change. We should be based on the overall situation of domestic and international affairs, use historical thinking in depth, carry out comparative research between countries, learn from the experience of clean government governance in other countries, and use useful elements for our own use. Learn from the theory and practical experience of clean government in various countries. "Power leads to corruption, and absolute power leads to absolute corruption." Ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle emphasized the importance of honesty when discussing the "good governance" of city states. The election system and tenure system of consuls founded in ancient Rome, and the power restriction mechanism of the Senate, consuls and citizens' assembly have become the origin of the western system. Locke and Montesquieu both emphasized power checks and balances. The "separation of three powers" has become the cornerstone of national systems such as Britain and the United States. Since modern times, theories such as "corruption culture", "power rent-seeking" and "conflict of interest" have emerged successively, and organizations such as Transparency International have carried out quantitative evaluation. Based on these theories, western countries have built a framework of mutual supervision and balance of the powers of legislative, administrative and judicial institutions, relying on specialized agencies such as the Federal Bureau of investigation, the Ministry of justice and the procuratorate to carry out clean government by means of property declaration, avoiding conflict of interest, behavior restriction, illegal punishment and media exposure. Despite the establishment of a strict system, western countries can not avoid institutional corruption rooted in their own inherent defects. Taking the United States as an example, it is mainly reflected in: first, the legalization of illegal issues. Bleach the problem of corruption into legal behavior with a formal system, so as to make corruption put on the coat of "legitimacy". For example, political contributions have become the political basis of elections, elected politicians such as presidents and parliamentarians have become the spokesmen of interest groups, and power options, political and business "revolving doors", lobbying and rent-seeking, interest exchange and other phenomena are rampant. Second, the problem of corruption is politicized. Compared with economic corruption such as corruption and bribery, political corruption such as collusion of political and economic forces, favoritism of interest groups, manipulation of a small number of "elites", and "black boxes" of legislation and policies are more serious. The "write off and pay the bill" operations such as presidential amnesty and political party rotation are still frequent. The third is the systematization of social exploitation. The institutional corruption of the "elite" leads to the systematic exploitation of the people. Political and economic forces are deeply linked. The chain of abuse of power for personal gain and interest collusion is longer, the network is denser, the operation is more complex and the form is more hidden. "Elite capture" is easy to escape legal sanctions, but the damage to public interests is difficult to verify, leading to political decline phenomena such as polarization between the rich and the poor, political polarization and populism. The game of great powers is ostensibly a competition of national strength, but in essence a competition of institutions. In the new era, we have made historic and groundbreaking achievements in comprehensively and strictly administering the party, produced an all-round and deep-seated impact, and benefited from the remarkable advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. The United States and other western countries cannot effectively restrict the intervention and control of capital in politics. The root cause is that in countries that implement the capitalist system, capital is a force above all. It can play a leading role in the framework of "separation of administrative, legislative and judicial powers" and become the "bottom logic" of system operation. In sharp contrast, the Communist Party of China has always represented the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, shared weal and woe with the people and depended on life and death. It has no special interests of its own, never represented the interests of any interest group, any power group or any privileged class, and is fundamentally different from other political parties in the world and all ruling groups in history, It can not only punish corruption with the scale and strength that other political parties and countries can't match, but also effectively prevent capital from interfering in politics and influencing decision-making, and cut off the collusion between capital and power. This goes beyond the institutional dilemma of the United States and other Western capitalist countries. In this regard, we should further enhance China's socialist road confidence, theoretical self-confidence, institutional self-confidence, cultural self-confidence, inherit the essence of traditional clean culture, and carry forward the advantages of contemporary China's system. We will promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, address both the symptoms and root causes, lay a solid foundation for a clean and honest culture, and identify the action coordinates for the construction of a clean and honest culture To run the party strictly in an all-round way, we should not only cure the symptoms, but also take strong medicine to cure the disease and put an end to chaos; It also depends on the root cause, self-cultivation, self-cultivation of culture, and keeping it as the foundation of politics. We must stand firmly in the spirit of self revolution, keep the advanced nature and purity of the party, and strengthen the construction of honest culture as a whole to promote basic projects that are not corrupt, corrupt and do not want to rot. First, it is based on the party's red revolutionary culture. The Centennial journey of the Communist Party of China is not only a magnificent history of social revolution, but also a history of self revolution. The "program" of the first National Congress of the party declared the fundamental position of opposing corruption and advocating integrity. Over the past hundred years, the party has fought against internal corruption through strict discipline, effectively overcome the influence of the old social corruption habits on the new regime, and constantly eradicated the soil for the breeding and spread of corruption during the economic transition period. The integrity of the party should be engraved on our memory
Edit：Luo yu Responsible editor：Jia jia
Source：ccdi.gov.cn
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