The concept of honor and disgrace has existed since ancient times, and everyone has a sense of honor and disgrace. Different times, different nationalities and people with different world outlook, outlook on life and values have different views on honor and disgrace. Engels said, "Every social group has its own concept of honor and disgrace". The socialist concept of honor and disgrace answers what is honor and shame in socialist society. To establish the socialist concept of honor and disgrace, we should not only carry forward the fine tradition, but also embody the spirit of the times; We should base ourselves on our own country and face the world; We should grasp today and face the future.
In the final analysis, the concept of honor and disgrace of each era and each nation is determined by the level of productivity development of that nation in that era, and it also greatly affects the economic and social development. The socialist concept of honor and disgrace with "eight honors and eight disgraces" as its main content has distinct characteristics of the times. It defines honor and disgrace, judges right and wrong, distinguishes beauty and ugliness, bases itself on China's actual national conditions and focuses on the requirements of modernization development, which embodies the unity of inheritance and innovation.
"Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" embodies the characteristics of the primary stage of socialism. The socialist concept of honor and disgrace contains the guiding ideology, principles and basic moral norms of citizens in socialist ideological and moral construction, and insists on serving the people as the core, collectivism as the principle, and loving the motherland, people, labor, science and socialism as the basic requirements. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" has both advanced guidance and extensive requirements, guiding people to straighten out the relationship between individuals, collectives and countries, correctly handling the relationship between individuals and society, competition and cooperation, getting rich first and sharing wealth together, and establishing a code of conduct that all citizens in socialist society generally agree with and consciously abide by.
"Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" embodies the characteristics of market economy. The development of socialist market economy has greatly enhanced people's consciousness of self-improvement, competition, efficiency, democracy and legal system and pioneering and innovative spirit, but the defects and negative factors of the market itself will also be reflected in people's ideological and moral and interpersonal relationships. Market economy is interest economy, benefit economy, credit economy and legal economy. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" puts forward a clear boundary between right and wrong, good and evil in view of negative phenomena and social harm such as money worship, hedonism, forgetting righteousness, dishonesty and deception. Its rich connotation provides an ideological basis for ensuring the healthy development of the socialist market economy and building a moral system suitable for the socialist market economy.
"Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" embodies the characteristics of modern society. With the development of science and technology and social progress, people's public life has been expanding, mutual communication has become increasingly frequent, and social division of labor has become increasingly fine. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" plays a more prominent role in safeguarding public interests, public order and social stability, and has become an important embodiment of citizens' personal moral cultivation and social civilization. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" establishes the code of conduct that citizens should follow in public life and public interests, which is conducive to promoting the all-round progress of society and the all-round development of people.
In our society, the boundaries between right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and ugliness cannot be confused. Otherwise, social harmony, economic development, national spirit and the country will not be strong. The "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" put forward by Comrade Hu Jintao clearly points out what we should adhere to, what we should oppose, what we should advocate and what we should resist, and should become the value orientation and code of conduct that every member and citizen should have.
An era has an era of spiritual fashion. "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" has become a common practice in the whole society, so that our nation can stand in the forefront of the times in ideological and moral construction, lead the fashion of the times and promote the progress of the times.