The spiritual essence of "emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times"

"Emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times" has always been the basic principle of our party's behavior line and the basic theoretical basis of democratic revolution and socialist construction. From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping, the party and state leaders put forward this line and further strengthened its guiding position. It has always been a favorable theoretical basis for our opposition to bookishness and dogmatism, and its role and significance have already exceeded the scope of guiding the inner-party line and style.

In Transforming Our Learning, Mao Zedong pointed out that "practical things" are all things that exist objectively, "yes" is the internal connection of objective things, that is, regularity, and "seeking" is what we study. As the motto of the Central Party School, the thought of "seeking truth from facts" is not only the basic activity principle of the Party to guide the revolutionary struggle and social construction, but also the essence of Mao Zedong Thought. It should be combined with the scientific thoughts of "emancipating the mind" and "keeping pace with the times" and raised to the philosophical level to guide our work and study.

The objective basis of emancipating the mind is seeking truth from facts, which is the premise of emancipating the mind; Keeping pace with the times is the requirement and purpose of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, the driving force of emancipating the mind and the theoretical basis guiding us to seek truth from facts. The significance of "emancipating the mind" is to see the contradiction of things, adhere to the contradictory point of view, abandon books and dogmas, and create an ideological favorable environment for us to improve and transform our study;

The significance of "seeking truth from facts" is to see clearly the objective reality of things, adhere to materialism, and clarify the correct objective conditions for us to put forward targeted and effective ideological lines and action lines; The significance of "keeping pace with the times" lies in seeing the changes and development of things and adhering to the viewpoint of connection and development, so that we can better combine history with reality, reality with the future, creatively exert our talents and increase the predictability of future undertakings.

Therefore, these three are complementary and inseparable as a perfect ideological system. It is undesirable, wrong and biased to stick to one or two of them at will and ignore the other two. As a contemporary college student, it is impossible to learn theory well without time. We should not only memorize this theoretical system and ideological line in textbooks, but also grasp the core of this theory and use it flexibly to guide our study and life.