All rivers return to the sea
——The Centennial Changes of Chinese Youth Political Beliefs
Climb high and look far, the scenery should be long-term.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Youth League of China.
For a hundred years, the political beliefs of Chinese youth, as a movement of human understanding, have strengthened each other with the intense social practice in various historical periods. The ideological trajectory of endless and tortuous development.
In the past 100 years, the changes in the political beliefs of Chinese youth have been like a long winding river, buried under the dust of history, stirred up by the wind and rain of the Chinese nation for a century, setting off magnificent historical waves one by one.
"History has fully proved that only by always holding high the banner of communism and socialism, the Communist Youth League can form the most solid unity, forge the most effective organization, and always unite the youth under the banner of the party's ideals and beliefs." May 10, 2022 , General Secretary Xi Jinping's strong and powerful voice echoed in the venue to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Youth League. This is not only a summary of historical experience, but also a summary of the main line of political beliefs of Chinese youth over the past century.
Throughout the century, it is not difficult to find that Marxism and its Sinicization achievements have always been the main channel of development and evolution. The ideological river of Chinese youth, despite various swirling and bifurcations, is always returning and flooding. It will always return to the river, after all, it flows east.
The beacon of truth always stands in the front. As a communist university, the Chinese Communist Youth League cultivates and leads generations of young people, and forges ahead for the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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On August 22, 1920, at No. 6 Yuyangli, Xiafei Road, Shanghai, eight young people with an average age of about 25 gathered together to form the Shanghai Socialist Youth League.
This is the earliest youth league organization in China.
This is a "consolidation of doctrines".
Among the eight, six are members of the Communist team, including 21-year-old Yu Xiusong and Shi Cuntong, 30-year-old Li Hanjun, and Chen Wangdao, the translator of the first Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto.
They come from all over the world, with a southern accent and a desire to open up a new world, they set out.
At this time, the Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto had just been published, and the first 1,000 copies were quickly sold out, and the second edition of 1,000 copies was sold out again.
This booklet with only more than 28,000 Chinese characters has become the ideological starting point for Chinese communists to create miracles of faith.
Chen Wangdao later recalled that the "Communist Manifesto" made young people understand that there is a higher criterion for distinguishing between old and new things, and this higher criterion is Marxism.
The theoretical system constructed by Marx and Engels is extensive and profound. They abstracted and sublimated their research results on the real world through the organic chain of "philosophy-political economy-scientific socialism", and finally formed a theory about the future world-communism. fundamental point of view.
This theory holds that the communist society is the ultimate realization of human liberation, and human beings are completely freed from the alien forces that dominate their own production and life destiny, and realize the transition from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom.
Communism has accumulated the essence of mankind's pursuit of a better society. It is the fairest, most reasonable, and the most beautiful society in human history, and it is the most lofty social ideal of mankind.
"This theory is like a magnificent sunrise, illuminating the way for mankind to explore the laws of history and seek their own liberation."
However, communism was still an abstract theoretical model at the time and was not fully realized in reality.
Some people believe because they see, and some people see because they believe.
Although the grand vision of communism has not been seen by the Chinese Communists of all dynasties up to now, they are convinced of its truth and believe that it reflects the inevitability of the laws of historical development. Accept consent", that's the power of faith!
The common belief makes people unite, go forward bravely, follow it with bloodshed, and work hard to achieve it.
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At that time, China needed such a popular belief.
After the Opium War, the "great dream of our country for four thousand years" was broken, and the youths of the May Fourth Movement took up the responsibility of creating peace for all eternity.
The intellectuals who were the first to awaken, with the spirit of being generous and giving up to others, searched for scriptures and inquiries.
Under the great changes unseen in a thousand years, at the time of "re-evaluating all values", all kinds of doctrines are wild and unbridled, and all kinds of theories are agitated.
"Assemblies and associations are like madness, and the name of a political party is like spring grass."
Early communists all went through a difficult search.
Most of the eight founders of the Shanghai Socialist Youth League had believed in anarchism, and their transformation was profound and dramatic.
As a branch of anarchism, work-study mutual aid advocates that "everyone works, everyone reads, each do his best, and each gets what he needs".
At the beginning of the last century, this kind of utopian thought was not only supported by many educated youths, but also carried out serious experiments.
In December 1919, Wang Guangqi, director of the executive department of the Young China Society, published "New Life in the City" and launched the "Work-study Mutual Aid Group" in Beijing.
Yu Xiusong and Shi Cuntong, students of Zhejiang First Division, who were deeply in the "depression of the student movement", resolutely went north to participate in this experimental activity.
According to memories, the members of the mutual aid group worked half a day and studied for half a day. In order to get rid of all constraints, after they entered the group, they announced that they would leave their families, marriages, and schools, and "absolutely implement communism" in the group.
But three months later, the labor was not enough to make ends meet, internal conflicts intensified, and the mutual aid group had to be disbanded.
This disappointed the enthusiastic Yu Xiusong, "I don't want to be a scholar... I would rather be a revolutionary who is 'reviled by the world'".
On the way to the south, Yu Xiusong and Shi Cuntong were retained by Chen Duxiu in Shanghai to work in the advanced publication "Zhou Review".
During this period, Yu Xiusong gradually approached Marxism ideologically, and then he "changed his name and changed his clothes" to work at the Housheng Iron Factory. Completed the change of mind.
He profoundly concluded that society must be fundamentally and completely transformed, and partial and superficial social transformation will not work.
He later recalled in his autobiography: "They helped me in many ways to understand Marxism and the revolutionary movement, including the October Revolution. I thought the October Revolution was the only way to liberate mankind from oppression."
1920 is known as the "Year of the Icebreaker".
This year, the full Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto was published, the Marxist Research Association was established, the communist group was born, and the Socialist Youth League came into being. .
The river of faith that melts the snow into a stream, melts the ice into a river, and runs toward the sea of communism begins from here.
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In August 1920, the Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai, and in the same month, the Shanghai Socialist Youth League was born.
As the former "commander-in-chief of the May 4th Movement", the main founder of the party, Chen Duxiu, is well aware of the important role of youth in promoting the revolutionary movement. Among the four practical tasks for building the party in Shanghai, the third one is about youth work: "A wide range of youth needs to be organized in various forms to engage them in multi-faceted work."
At this time, Shanghai, because of its specific economic, political, cultural and geographical historical environment, has become the new center of the Chinese revolution.
Around 1920, many enthusiastic young people from all over the country who were aspiring to transform China left their families and schools and gathered in Shanghai.
The Comintern representative Vikingsky, who went to China to assist the founding of the party, based on the experience of the Soviet Youth League organization, "then had a close business with Chen Duxiu", "the first step is to collect left-leaning and revolutionary young people and organize the Socialist Youth League." .
As a result, "for the purpose of social transformation and propaganda", and also for "cultivating and selecting reserve party members", the newly established Communist Party of China founding group assigned its youngest member Yu Xiusong to be responsible for the formation of the Socialist Youth League.
The old and new Yuyangli are only 100 meters apart.
Back then, a group of like-minded "new youths" traveled between the two places. Chen Duxiu and Chen Wangdao would go to classes, and young people often came to discuss issues.
Yuyangli, the original place of Chinese communism, gave birth to the party and the regiment on the other.
This trail between the two places is also known as the "Marxist Trail".
"When the Youth League was established, all the Communist Party members, regardless of age, participated. Chen Duxiu and Li Da also participated," Shi Cuntong once recalled. For a long time, "many of the party's activities appeared in the name of the league." , because "the organization of the Communist Party was secret at the time, and the Youth League was semi-open", everyone called the Party the school and the Youth League the pre-school.
This formed the special origin of the regiment as a party assistant and reserve army.
In June 1921, Yu Xiusong stated when he attended the Second Congress of the Youth Communist International: "The Socialist Youth League closely cooperates with the work of the Communist Party, obeys the Party and works with the Party among the workers and soldiers" "We hope to stand side by side with the old comrades and teachers. Together, under the direct leadership of the Young Communist International, we will lead the suffering China of hundreds of millions of people to a happy and joyful communist system."
In July 1921, the Communist Party of China was formally established.
The National Congress of the Communist Party of China studied the restoration and establishment of the Socialist Youth League as the party's preparatory school in various places.
In November, Chen Duxiu, Secretary of the Central Bureau, issued the "Notice of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China" requiring that party organizations in all localities should pay attention to the youth movement and "promptly follow the new rules" for youth league organizations. More than 2,000 members before."
Younger parties create younger regiments.
On May 5, 1922, the first National Congress of the Chinese Socialist Youth League was held in Guangzhou.
This day is also the 104th anniversary of Marx's birth.
Chen Duxiu made a report at the meeting and pointed out: "There are two conferences today, one is the Marx Memorial Conference and the other is the founding conference of the Chinese Socialist Youth League. These two conferences are closely related. Where is the relationship? Because socialism The Youth League was founded on the basis of Marx’s teachings.”
Dallin, a representative of the Young Communist International, added that this "underscores the direction of the regiment's development".
The First Youth League passed the "Program of the Socialist Youth League of China", and determined that the Youth League was "the organization of the Chinese proletariat", and its ultimate goal was to establish in China "the initial stage when all production tools are brought into public ownership and free food is prohibited." communist society".
As a mission-oriented political organization that believes in Marxism, the establishment of the China Socialist Youth League has opened a new chapter in the youth movement under the leadership of the party.
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Only when you gather the sun can you create flames, and when you gather your fingers, you can form a fist.
It is not easy for a political organization to follow a unified common belief.
From the establishment of the early youth league organization to the official convening of the first major of the youth league, it has experienced the process of reconfirmation of Marxism by revolutionary youth.
The early Youth League was only "with a socialist inclination, and did not determine which school of socialism", and the socialist school was very complex at that time.
"There are also Marxists, there are anarchists, there are also Guild Socialists, there are also syndicalists, and there are also inexplicable", so "the opinions are often inconsistent and conflict with each other".
Among the many political schools under the banner of socialism, anarchism is the most in need of analysis and identification.
As the most influential "ism" at the beginning of the last century, anarchism once shared the same path with Marxism, many anarchists once joined the communist group, and many early Marxists were born out of anarchists.
However, with the deepening of the revolution, the two major trends of thought gradually parted ways, and even openly debated.
There are many ideological differences between Marxism and anarchism, and the most important conflict is whether to agree with the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Anarchism opposes all organizations and powers, especially national governments. They paint a wonderful vision of sharing indiscriminate communism, but do not propose a feasible path to achieve it.
On the other hand, Marxists believe that, before reaching a communist society, it is necessary to establish a strict political party, violently seize power, and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat to consolidate and develop their own cause and achieve all the conditions required for an ideal society.
This serious disagreement reached its peak in the 1920 caucus formation period.
The ambiguity of belief causes the disorganization of the organization.
In the spring of 1921, as the initial enthusiasm dissipated, the socialist youth leagues in many places lost their vitality, and the activities of the national youth leagues gradually came to a standstill.
Guangzhou, another city with an early development of modern economy and culture, has also gone through the process of identifying anarchism.
In the autumn of 1920, Minor and Beslin, representatives of the Far East Bureau of the Comintern, went to Guangzhou to form the "Guangdong Communist Party", but the nine people who participated in this organization, except two Russians, seven Chinese were anarchists.
After that, the Youth Mutual Aid League led by the anarchists Qu Shengbai and Huang Lingshuang was merged into the Guangzhou Socialist Youth League, which made the Guangzhou Youth League more complicated and chaotic.
At the end of that year, Chen Duxiu arrived in Guangdong, witnessed the situation at that time, and "had a very heated argument" with the anarchists.
Forced by the resolute struggle of Chen Duxiu and others, in March 1921, the anarchists collectively withdrew from the Guangzhou Youth League.
In response to the problem of the Youth League, the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China dispatched Zhang Tailei to be responsible for rectifying and restoring the Youth League according to the instructions of the Youth Communist International.
Lift the net to the outline, a thousand eyes are open.
The first step in Zhang Tailei's rectification work was to "determine the Socialist Youth League as a group that believes in Marxism". Those who disagreed leave and those who stay followed.
With the unity of faith, there is spiritual cohesion, and the youth league organization soon regained its vitality.
By May 1922, 18 cities across the country had established regiments with more than 5,000 members.
The situation in Guangzhou was better. On March 14 of that year, the day of Marx's death, the Guangdong Socialist Youth League held an inaugural meeting of more than 3,000 people.
This created the conditions for the convening of the first major of the regiment.
In the second fifty years after the founding of Marxism, an opportunistic trend of thought that tampered with the basic principles of Marxism gradually rose.
In Europe at that time, the Socialist Youth League had become the name of the youth organization under the leadership of the revisionists of the Second International, and this name was "inappropriate" for the Chinese communist movement.
On January 26, 1925, the Third Youth League was successfully held, and an important decision was made at the meeting, which was to change the name to "Chinese Communist Youth League".
To be brave enough to name it "Communism" is a serious affirmation of faith.
The "Manifesto" issued by the meeting said boldly: "We need not hide our proposition that we represent the interests of the proletariat. Communism is the most terrible term for imperialism, warlords and all counter-revolutionaries. We should be brave enough to reveal our communism. the true face of the victims, making them tremble in front of us."
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Lenin once said that religious beliefs are nothing but delicate fruitless flowers.
As the "truth in the world", communist belief not only originates from reality, but also guides reality, thus producing reality. It is an objective reality process.
After the convening of the National League Congress, under the leadership of the party, the regimental organizations all over the country participated in a series of revolutionary movements of workers and peasants.
Due to the special national conditions of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, at the beginning of the establishment of the party group, the revolutionary work was mostly carried out with students as the center, and the composition of the members was mostly students. Secondary school students".
However, with the deepening of the revolution, the excessively high proportion of student members restricted the mission and ability of the regiment.
Zhang Tailei said: "The Youth League was almost completely a 'student group' in the past." Deng Zhongxia pointed out clearly: "The important reason why the Chinese revolution is weak and cannot be completed is that the main force of the revolution is the workers, peasants and soldiers. These three masses have not yet been awakened and organized. In other words, our youth only shouted in articles and telegrams, and did not go to these three masses to do propaganda and organization." From the very beginning, the Youth League actively advocated "going to the people" and mobilized more young workers and peasants to participate in the revolutionary movement.
With the vigorous revolutionary process, the ranks of people who believe in communism continue to expand.
After the victory of the workers' strike in Anyuan, Anyuan has more than 100 members in total, becoming one of the first areas to establish a local Youth League committee.
Within a year, Hunan "expanded the number of local regiments to eleven, and almost no counties had no comrades."
After the May 30th Movement, the number of members nationwide increased from more than 2,400 in January 1925 to more than 9,000 in September.
In May 1927, on the eve of the Fourth Youth League Congress, the number of members soared to more than 37,600.
However, after the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, the momentum of the rapid expansion of the communist belief was reversed.
As Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei defected to the revolution successively, the Chinese revolution suffered heavy losses. From March 1927 to the first half of 1928, more than 310,000 people across the country were killed by the KMT reactionaries, including more than 26,000 Communist Party members.
The number of party members has been reduced from nearly 60,000 in the Fifth Five-year period to more than 10,000, and the number of League members has dropped from 55,000 to more than 10,000.
History is merciful and ruthless, and it weeds out speculators and cowards in the harshest way.
Not all the communists who were initially listed were able to hold fast to their beliefs. In desperation, Shi Cuntong wrote "Confessions of Sorrow" and announced that they had left the party.
Shen Xuanlu not only defected to the arms of the Kuomintang reactionaries, but also acted as a vicious executioner in the massacre.
History is ruthless and affectionate, and more communists have always adhered to their beliefs and have been tempered by blood and fire.
Ye Tiandi, one of the founders of the Shanghai Socialist Youth League, wrote a death letter after he was arrested and imprisoned, in which he wrote: "A man who is not strong enough to live, what a pity for death, the blood of martyrs, the flower of doctrine. "I never want to live on my knees, I would rather die standing!" Five days later, Ye Tiandi was carried to the execution ground. At the last moment of his life, he held up his almost paralyzed body, raised his chest, and shouted with his head held high. : "Long live the Chinese Communist Party!"
The wind is strong and the grass is strong, and the fire is real gold.
Great faith has created amazing tenacity and tenacity. From August 1927 to July 1928, the number of Communist Youth League members increased from 15,000 to 75,000 in less than a year.
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In the violent political ups and downs, as one of the organizational carriers of the communist belief, the Chinese Communist Youth League has also withstood the test, completed a profound self-reform, successively corrected the erroneous tendencies such as liquidationism and avant-garde, and clarified its own functional positioning. Become a purely proletarian advanced youth organization.
The Fourth National Congress of the Communist Party of China passed the "Resolution on the Youth Movement", which stated: "The youth movement is an important part of the communist movement. Because the Communist Party is the general commander of this general communist movement, the youth movement must be under the guidance of the Communist Party. Undoubtedly." This clearly illustrates the caucus relationship.
After that, the 5th CPC National Congress passed the Resolution on Political Situation and the Party's Tasks, which further pointed out: "The Communist Youth League is the most important part of the communist movement, and the Communist Youth League is a canal. To the broad masses of hard-working young people." Shortly after the meeting, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee passed the "Resolution on the Third Amendment to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China", with a special chapter on "Relationship with the Youth League", which started the tradition of writing the relationship between the party and the league into the party constitution. .
The four major groups, which were held successively with the five major groups of the party, adopted the "Declaration of the Conference" solemnly declared: "During the two years of struggle, the congress has firmly determined that this group is a revolutionary organization of proletarian youth. It should be under the leadership of the party, Attract the broad masses of working youth to revolutionary struggles, and at the same time develop their communist spirit in these struggles."
As the party further clarifies its relationship with the Communist Youth League, the assistants of the Communist Youth League and the reserve army play a more full role, and the pace of keeping up with the party is more solid and firm.
At the critical juncture of the failure of the Great Revolution, the Party Central Committee held the "August 7th" meeting to determine the general policy of the agrarian revolution and armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries. Follow the party on a revolutionary path centered on agrarian revolution and opposition to the new warlords.
At that time, Chinese farmers accounted for more than 80% of the country's total population.
Comrade Mao Zedong once pointed out: "Whoever wins the peasants will win China, and whoever solves the land problem will win the peasants." Revolutionary education has become the main work of the Communist Youth League in the Soviet area.
Ren Bishi, the head of the Youth League Central Committee at that time, once said: "Our group is an educational institution, not comparable to a political party." In the Soviet area, the new world created by the party, as young farmers continued to join, the Communist Youth League organization also continued to grow. By October 1930 In January, the number of members in the base area grew to 100,000, and the spark of communist belief quickly ignited a prairie fire.
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The long river of modern political thought, which stretches for a hundred years, sometimes empties thousands of miles, and sometimes turns back and forth.
After the September 18th Incident in 1931, the Chinese youth movement encountered new circumstances and faced severe tests.
At this time, the Japanese aggressors stepped on the Chinese soil, and the national contradiction between China and Japan became the main contradiction. Uniting all the anti-Japanese forces to fight the aggressors became the top priority.
In response to the call of the Party Central Committee, on December 20, 1935, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League issued the "Declaration to the Students of All Schools and Young Compatriots from All Circles in the Country for Resisting Japanese Aggression and Saving the Nation", proposing that "all patriotic young people, those who believe in communism or those who do not believe in communism. Also, as long as you are willing to resist Japan and save the country, you can join our Youth League for Anti-Japanese and National Salvation.”
In November 1936, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Youth Work", which formally proposed: "The Communist Youth League and its organizational form should be fundamentally transformed, and the Youth League should be transformed into a form of non-Party youth organization for the masses, to attract young people to participate. The national united front to resist Japan and save the nation." On April 12, 1937, under the direct leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Northwest Youth National Salvation Federation held its first congress.
After the meeting, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League stopped working, and the local Communist Youth League organizations also stopped their activities one after another.
The change in the form of youth organizations does not mean that the party has weakened the political work of youth.
In the revolutionary base areas, the flame of communist beliefs became even more intense, and Yan'an became the "red holy land" that countless advanced young people yearned for.
Just ask who is in charge of Kyushu, and everyone is watching Qingliang Mountain.
In 1938 alone, more than 10,000 young people were allowed to go to Yan'an from the Xi'an Office of the Eighth Route Army.
By the early 1940s, Yan'an had formed an intellectual group of about 40,000 people, of which more than 70% had a junior high school education or above, and nearly 20% of them had a higher education.
At that time, Edward, the captain of the Indian medical team in China, looked at the team that appeared and disappeared on the winding mountain road, and said sincerely: "A miracle, a miracle, this is a miracle! This is China's Jerusalem in the 20th century!"
Around Yan'an, a small town with a population of over 60,000, the Communist Party of China has established more than 30 cadre schools, making Yan'an a veritable "university town".
What to study in Yan'an?
Mao Zedong's answer was "First of all, learn a political direction."
Zhu De said to the practitioners: "If the Chinese youth wants to advance but not retreat, and if the Chinese youth wants to stay out of the laggards in the long-term struggle, then he must take this unique road. The road of communism is the guiding monument for the youth. ."
The central leaders at that time all gave lectures at the school.
Chen Yun once said in class that when every party member took the oath to join the party, he expressed his willingness to fight to the end for the cause of communism. What does "in the end" mean?
In the words of the Shanghai people, it is "braided".
In 1938, when Wu Yinxian, a well-known photographer in Shanghai, went to Yan'an to shoot a documentary about the life of the Eighth Route Army, he said: "I am not a Communist Party, and I don't want to become red. I will come back after the filming, and no one will want to detain me." After the filming was over, Wu Yinxian voluntarily requested to stay and handed in an application for joining the party.
Statistics show that at the beginning of the fourth term of the Anti-Japanese University, there were 530 party members among the 4,655 educated youths. By the time of graduation, the number of party members among them had increased to 3,304, accounting for 71%.
Less than two years after the establishment of North Shaanxi Public School, more than 3,000 new party members were developed among the more than 6,000 students.
Revolutionary forging must first infuse political beliefs, and secondly integrate the masses of workers and peasants.
In 1939, on the 20th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, Mao Zedong delivered his famous speech "The Direction of the Youth Movement".
He believed that the nation's educated youth and student youth must unite with the broad masses of workers and peasants and become one with them in order to form a powerful army.
"The direction of the youth movement in Yan'an is the direction of the national youth movement."
Yan'an, the melting pot of the revolution, has forged young people with different experiences into communists with strong spirit and firm beliefs, including Feng Yuxiang's nephew, Yuan Shikai's grandson, and Zhang Xueliang's younger brother.
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The theoretical form of Chinese communist belief is the result of Marxism and its sinicization.
"Where history begins, the process of thought should also begin".
After entering China, Marxism has been continuously integrated with China's reality, constantly being sinicized and modernized. Mao Zedong Thought is the first historic leap in the sinicization of Marxism and has become an important era form of communist belief.
"On New Democracy" is regarded as a symbol of Mao Zedong Thought's maturity.
The theoretical contributions of this important work are, firstly, pointing out the development path of the Chinese revolution;
"With regard to the proposition of the social system, the Communist Party has two parts: the present program and the future program, or the minimum program and the maximum program. In the present, new democracy, and in the future, socialism, these are two parts, and Guided by the entire communist ideology."
When the Anti-Japanese War was about to be won, history came to a critical juncture, which is to choose what kind of country to build, which will lead to different ultimate goals, "is it to build a new democratic country led by the proletariat and the masses of the people? Or build a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country under the dictatorship of the big landlords and the big bourgeoisie? This will be a very complicated struggle.”
At the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong pointed out in his opening speech that China is facing a struggle between two futures and two destinies. and dark destiny.
The struggle between the two futures and destiny is, in essence, a struggle between two political ideologies.
Political beliefs centered on Mao Zedong's ideological system, especially the theoretical system of new-democratic revolution with the goal of establishing the people's democratic dictatorship regime, with its continuous development and improvement and successive victories in military struggles, have become popular among more and more young people. Support and follow.
The political beliefs of the rightists of the Kuomintang, because of their corrupt rule and increasingly distant from the ideal of Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People", were constantly abandoned by young people who had hoped for it, and gradually slipped into a low ebb.
By the time the war of liberation began, the victory and defeat had already been decided by people's hearts and backs, and once it started, it was overwhelming.
The upsurge of communist belief has led to the emergence of a large number of advanced activists among the youth, who are eager to make progress, but only 40,000 to 50,000 young people can be absorbed into the party.
At this time, the Youth Rescue Association, with its weak political attributes, could no longer bear the responsibility of organizing and mobilizing the youth, and most of them were in a stagnant state, and the work of rebuilding the Communist Youth League was put on the agenda.
After careful research and experimentation, on the eve of national liberation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish the China New Democracy Youth League across the country. The mass organization of the advanced young people who are fighting for the new democracy is the core of the Party to unite and lead the young masses, and it is the school for the Party to educate the youth with Marxism-Leninism.”
On April 11, 1949, the first National Congress of the Chinese New Democratic Youth League was held in Peiping, which had just been liberated.
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In October 1949, New China was established, the Communist Party of China became the ruling party, Marxism became the mainstream political thought, and communist belief became the dominant political belief.
The situation in Kyushu gathers here, and thousands of streams flow side by side here!
The founding of the new China is different from any previous dynasty change. The general regime change cannot summarize this extensive and profound social change. We must wash away all the muddy water left over from the old era and establish a brand-new people's democratic republic.
The strong contrast between the old and the new society first aroused the sharp-minded young people who took the lead in consolidating the new regime and building a new society. Whether it was resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, land reform, or promoting the marriage law, the young people responded positively and enthusiastically as the masters. , played an important pioneering role.
Youth transforms society, and society shapes youth.
The newly rebuilt China Youth League has vigorously promoted this kind of formation. The league organizations at all levels have carried out a variety of activities. In particular, they have followed the party's pace and carried out the study of Mao Zedong's works and communist ideological and moral education campaigns. The socialist ideological education was carried out among the elements and young students, so that the Marxist beliefs were rapidly popularized among the youth.
By the end of 1952, the number of League members nationwide had soared from 190,000 at the beginning of 1949 to 8.5 million, accounting for more than 7% of the national youth population.
In 1952, the Soviet writer Ostrovsky's "How Steel Is Tempered" was published in China. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League took it as a "handbook" for cultivating "new socialist people" and recommended it to young people across the country.
The protagonist Paul Korchagin's communist outlook on life deeply touched Chinese youth, making it go beyond literary creation and become the "collective memory" of a generation.
At that time, the national party organizations and classes were named after "Paul Korchagin", and a large number of "Chinese Pauls" emerged from all walks of life in New China.
Strong faith erupts with great energy.
Three years after the founding of New China, the old mountains and rivers that had been devastated were basically "cleaned up".
In September 1953, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to start the socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts and capitalist industry and commerce. At the meeting, Mao Zedong proposed to basically complete the transition to socialism in 10 to 15 years. However, the production relations are so profound. The drastic revolutionary adjustment finally took less than 4 years.
As the primary form of communism, once the socialist economic system was established, it immediately showed a huge liberation of the productive forces.
At the end of 1957, most of the targets of the "First Five-Year Plan" were exceeded. A large number of basic industrial sectors that were not available in old China were established one by one, and 595 large and medium-sized projects were completed and put into operation, filling many gaps in heavy industry construction.
Industrialization has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the achievements far exceed the 100 years of old China.
那是一个凯歌行进的年代，也是一个青春勃发的年代。新中国第一代青年建设者们，在团组织带领下，“把青春献给祖国”“向困难进军”“向荒原进军”“争做青年突击队”“植树造林，绿化祖国”，为改变“一穷二白”的中国，逢山开路，遇水架桥，冲锋在前，把最美的青春留在了祖国的每个角落。
1957年5月，中国新民主主义青年团第三次全国代表大会召开，代表们一致认为“广大团员正在为把我国建设成为一个伟大的社会主义工业强国而辛勤地劳动着，并且把在将来实现共产主义当作自己崇高的理想”。中国新民主主义青年团的叫法已不太合时宜，中国共产主义青年团的命名由此被确定下来，沿用至今。
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按照马克思主义经典理论，上层建筑包括政治、法律制度及其设施和社会意识形态这两个部分。第一部分的变革一般较快，1949年新中国成立，即迅速推动实现。但政治思想和道德、艺术、哲学等意识形态变革则往往来得较慢，经历了一个调整涵养的过程。
上世纪60年代初期，新的生产关系基本调整到位，社会主义意识形态也随之逐渐演变成型。这其中最典型的就是以雷锋精神为代表的社会主义道德观念开始蔚然成风。
雷锋，这个普通战士，在他身上，共产主义信仰具象为新时代的人生观、世界观和价值观。1963年，毛泽东等中央领导纷纷题词“向雷锋同志学习”。共青团中央发出《通知》，号召全国青少年积极参与“学习雷锋”教育活动。
处于共产主义的过渡阶段，社会主义的新中国在经济基础确立后，需要建立一种新型的精神品质和行为准则。劳动人民当家作主，要求人们以新的态度对待社会和国家；生产资料公有制要求人们用集体主义原则处理国家、集体、个人三者之间的利益关系；人与人之间在政治上经济上的平等，全社会开始形成助人为乐的良好风尚；在社会主义按劳分配原则的基础上，社会先进分子进一步倡导艰苦奋斗、无私奉献。
雷锋的典型意义，在于他集中体现了共产主义精神的价值取向，是具备新型社会主义道德的理想人格。社会主义经济关系所要求的一切精神品质和行为准则，他都默默地、一丝不苟地、全心全意地实践着。“做一颗永不生锈的螺丝钉”“人活着就是为了让别人生活得更美好”“把有限的生命投入到无限的为人民服务之中”，他用22年的生命朴素地阐释了理论家们用深奥的语言才能讲清的哲理：“我觉得人生在世，只有勤劳，发奋图强，用自己的双手创造财富，为人类的解放事业——共产主义贡献自己的一切，这才是最幸福的。”
社会主义意识形态的成型，不仅造就了当时社会道德风尚的黄金时代，而且基本构建了新中国以共产主义为核心的社会思想体系。“雷锋叔叔”成为跨越时代的精神标杆，共产主义信仰以新的完备形态，成为全社会共同信奉的政治信仰。
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社会主义改造和“一五计划”的巨大成功，让全国上下信心倍增，对早日实现共产主义的愿望更加迫切。1958年先后启动了“大跃进”和人民公社化运动，开始加速建设社会主义。
按照马克思主义经典作者的设计，在共产主义社会将实行全民所有的生产资料公有制。社会生产因此将进行统一组织与管理，个人劳动直接成为社会劳动的一部分，个人利益直接在社会利益之中得到实现。这样，个人劳动就不再需要通过交换价值向社会劳动转化，社会成员的相互服务也不需要通过等价交换来实现，个人消费随着产品的极大丰富，而实行“各尽所能，按需分配”，从而实现人类在分配上的真正平等。
不难看出，无论是“超英赶美”的“大跃进”，还是“一大二公”的人民公社，都是按照马列理论的愿景来描摹的。然而，真理多迈一步便是谬误。青年怀着对共产主义的真诚向往投入到社会运动中，他们感情真挚又欠缺阅历，没有意识到马克思主义已经被误读和曲解，信仰的浪潮逐渐偏离航线，冲出了河道。
1976年10月，“四人帮”倒台，“文化大革命”结束。1978年12月，党的十一届三中全会召开，实现“三个历史转变”。1981年6月，《关于建国以来党的若干历史问题的决议》发表，党在指导思想上的拨乱反正胜利完成。
政治上的拨乱反正依托于思想上的正本清源。深刻的反思，首先来自思想界对社会主义的辨析：什么是真正的社会主义？社会主义的本质是什么？中国的社会主义道路应该怎样走？
1984年，邓小平同志总结说：“贫穷不是社会主义，更不是共产主义。”按照马克思主义经典作家的观点，社会主义革命和建设的目的，就是让生产关系与生产力相互适应，以推动物质文明和精神文明不断发达，为实现共产主义准备条件。这其中，生产力是矛盾的主要方面，如果生产力得不到发展，就是生产关系(尤其是生产资料所有制形式)迟滞或超越了生产力水平，就是犯了政策错误。所谓“宁要社会主义的草，不要资本主义的苗”，是用政治运动思维替代经济发展规律，是伪马克思主义。
恩格斯说过：“伟大的阶级，正如伟大的民族一样，无论从哪个方面学习都不如从自己所犯错误的后果中学习来得快。”正是在对早期实践的辨析和反思中，我们摸索出中国特色社会主义理论体系，实现了马克思主义中国化的第二次飞跃。邓小平理论中关于“社会主义初级阶段”的理论，以巨大的理论勇气冲破了对马克思主义教条化的误读，正确回答了在现实国情下怎样搞社会主义这个根本问题，成为现阶段我们党制定路线、方针和政策的总依据。
上世纪80年代初思想界一系列的思辨和争论，逐渐廓清迷雾，还原出一个真实的马克思主义。
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伴随着党和国家大政方针的重大调整，青年政治信仰也经历了剧烈的震荡和艰难的重生。
在青年中，一场“人生观大讨论”，异常热烈地展开。一封来信《人生的路呵，怎么越走越窄……》，表达着一代人的困惑：“什么是人生的目的？”“人的本质是不是自私的？”“主观为自己，客观为他人的人生信条对不对？”“这是一颗真实的、不加任何粉饰的信号弹，赤裸裸地打入生活，引起反响。”刊发来信的团中央机关刊《中国青年》杂志，由此创下了发行400多万份的奇迹。
正本清源的暖意融动了冰封的河面，沉寂的思想之河开始破冰奔涌。敏感的大学生群体接收到春天的信号，率先走出迷茫，奋起投身四化建设。
1979年12月，清华大学化学系72班开展了社会主义制度问题的讨论。经过讨论，同学们作出了三点辨析：把社会主义基本制度与某些具体政策的偏差区分开，把社会主义制度与党在实际工作中的失误区分开，把社会主义制度与个别单位、个别党员的错误区分开，某些社会丑恶现象有其社会历史根源，社会主义制度也需要在探索中逐步完善，这种完善，青年大学生也责无旁贷。在认真深入地思考后，“化72班”响亮地喊出了“从我做起，从现在做起”的口号，经由团中央机关报《中国青年报》报道，引发青年广泛共鸣。
随后，1981年3月20日，中国男排在世界杯预选赛上先丢两局后连扳三局战胜韩国队，这一胜利触发了久藏在青年中的热情，北京大学校园为之沸腾。同学们点燃扫帚当火把，自发举行欢庆游行，有人喊出了“团结起来，振兴中华”的口号，得到大家齐声响应。有同学回忆说：“那时候国家百废待兴，人心也比较散，这个口号把大家凝聚起来了。”
短暂的迷失之后，在“同心干四化”的号召下，中国青年重拾信心，共产主义信仰再次高扬。1982年年底，全国4800万名团员中，有2600万名是1978年后新发展的。这4年里，还有270万名优秀团员加入了中国共产党。
在被“文革”中断多年后，共青团全国领导机关重新恢复运转。1978年10月，共青团第十次全国代表大会召开，会议正确评价了经历“文革”磨难的青年一代：低估“四人帮”对青年造成的创伤是错误的。但看不到青年的主流，看不到这一主流代表着我们国家的未来和民族的希望，同样是错误的。
共青团重新成为团结带领全国青年的骨干组织，广泛动员青年为新长征贡献青春。“五讲四美三热爱”、学习张海迪和“一山两湖”英雄集体等活动，随之轰轰烈烈展开。1985年，团中央召开会议提出，要加强和改进新时期的青年思想政治工作，培养造就一代有理想、有道德、有文化、有纪律的共产主义新人。从此，培养“四有”新人成为承载共产主义远大理想和中国特色社会主义共同理想的教育载体。
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上世纪80年代后期，东欧一些社会主义国家的共产党和工人党相继丧失政权，发生了社会主义制度演变为资本主义制度的剧烈动荡。1991年12月25日，苏联国旗从克里姆林宫缓缓降下，从此再也没有升起。
此时，国内改革也正在过大关，贫富差距拉大、腐败现象滋生。国际冲击的惶惑和国内转型的阵痛，西方思潮在此前后也纷纷涌入，让部分青年出现思想动荡，主流信仰再次遭遇危机。
苏东剧变以后，西方社会高度自信，认为苏联解体标志着共产主义的终结，历史的发展只有一条路，即西方的市场经济和民主政治。美国政治学者福山断言：自由民主制度也许是“人类意识形态发展的终点”和“人类最后一种统治形式”，并因此构成“历史的终结”。
面对“黑云压城城欲摧”的形势，邓小平以政治家的睿智回应：“马克思主义是打不倒的。打不倒，并不是因为大本子多，而是因为马克思主义的真理颠扑不破。”因此，我们只需“做好一件事，我们自己的事。”
1991年6月，中共中央决定出版《毛泽东选集》第二版，1993年10月，《邓小平文选》第三卷发行，在青年中继“国学”热后又兴起了“毛泽东热”“邓小平热”，这表明在经历了政治风波的震荡后，更多的青年逐渐走向现实和理性。
20多年过去，坚持社会主义道路的中国不仅没有“崩溃”，还迎来了从“站起来”“富起来”到“强起来”的历史性飞跃。一组组数据，悄然描画出飞奔向前的中国脚步：2006年，中国GDP超越英国，实现了“超英赶美”的豪言；2010年，中国一跃成为全球第二大经济体；2020年，在疫情的不利影响下，中国GDP依然突破百万亿元大关，超过世界第一大经济体的70%。历史没有终结，历史不会终结，在历史之上，中国共产党人创造了新的更加辉煌的历史。
伴随中国的经济腾飞，共青团实施希望工程、创建青年文明号、发起中国青年志愿者行动……带领青年以嵌入社会的新形态、新方式，投入到改革开放和现代化建设的伟大进程中。
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中国共产主义者信仰的社会形态，是社会主义和共产主义，具体在现阶段，是中国特色社会主义。中国特色社会主义是党的最高纲领和基本纲领的统一，是共产主义在我国社会主义初级阶段的现实存在和具体体现，是到达共产主义社会的必经阶段。
没有最高理想的指引，具体实践就缺乏前进方向和政治定力。没有基本纲领的实现，最高理想就是空中楼阁，缺乏现实基础。中国特色社会主义的基本纲领，概言之，就是建立富强民主文明和谐美丽的社会主义现代化国家。
党的十八大以来，中国特色社会主义进入新时代。这个新时代，是承前启后、继往开来、在新的历史条件下继续夺取中国特色社会主义伟大胜利的时代，是决胜全面建成小康社会、进而全面建设社会主义现代化强国的时代，是全国各族人民团结奋斗、不断创造美好生活、逐步实现全体人民共同富裕的时代，是全体中华儿女勠力同心、奋力实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的时代，是我国日益走近世界舞台中央、不断为人类作出更大贡献的时代。当下，小康社会已经全面建成，我们正意气风发踏上实现第二个百年奋斗目标的新征程。
未来20多年是我们实现复兴目标的关键里程，这将是一段愈进愈难、愈进愈险而又不进则退、非进不可的“历史峡湾”。纵观历史，放眼世界，当下大国实力对比发生深刻变化，科技进步影响深远并伴随众多不确定性，人口结构改变、国际货币体系演化、多边体系瓦解与重建等等因素叠加，可谓百年未有之大变局。
大变局中，中国是最大的自变量。根据历史观察，世界经济“老二”的GDP达到“老大”的60%就会引发“老大”的极力扼制。自1894年成为世界第一后，美国本着“竞争现实主义”逻辑，先后四次阻止其他强国的崛起。中国的GDP在2021年已超过美国GDP的77%，并且持续保持追赶的增速，这是从来没有发生过的事情，作为“历史上最无情的强国”，美西方必将视中国为最大威胁加以遏制，从而加剧世界变局的动荡。
可以想见，我们民族复兴这段冲线的里程，必然会有许多艰难险阻甚至惊涛骇浪。要避免所谓的修昔底德陷阱、塔西佗陷阱、中等收入陷阱，要警惕“黑天鹅”，也要防范“灰犀牛”，我们还有许多障碍要跨越，有很多任务要完成。冲出“历史峡湾”的重任，历史性地落到了当代青年身上。
当代青年是中国发展史上又一个不寻常的重要代群，与百年前的“新青年”相比，时代背景截然不同，但两代青年的使命担当一脉相承。当代青年生逢强国时代，生命的黄金时期与完成复兴伟业的历史进程正相吻合，在民族复兴接力跑中，我们是冲线的那一棒。
征途漫漫，惟有奋斗。习近平总书记明确提出：实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦，是党和国家工作大局，也是中国青年运动的时代主题。亲身实践伟大历程，亲手完成复兴宏愿，这是当代青年千载难逢的历史荣光，更是当代青年责无旁贷的历史使命！
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共产主义作为一种科学信仰，不仅蕴含着现实批判和理论建设，更蕴含着对社会理想的终极美好性和人的完满性的引领与感召。这种崇高的信仰，曾使无数共产党人为之奋斗终身。这种信仰的武装，对当下肩负着历史重任的中国青年来说，更具有重要的现实意义。
应当看到，中国的共产主义运动还处在社会主义的初级阶段，更具体地说，当下我们处在“新发展阶段”，即社会主义从初级阶段向更高阶段迈进的阶段。从自身纵向来看，我们还必须实行多种所有制并存的社会主义市场经济，这无法超越；从国际横向来看，借由全球化浪潮和互联网革命，我们的社会思想环境事实上进入了世界性的后现代主义场域。因此，当代青年的政治意识呈现出复杂性和阶段性：个人与集体、现实与理想、自由与权威、协作与竞争、中心论与碎片化相互杂糅并存，摩擦拉锯。建设共同信仰必须顾及这些阶段性特征，让青年从自身发展中感悟制度优势，在情感共鸣中凝聚信仰力量。
与革命前辈所处时代不同，当今中国已经累积起相当的共产主义因子，已经展露出共产主义的部分现实和光明前景，马克思主义生动而鲜活，这是我们向青年开展思想政治工作最有力的依据和最充足的底气。
从“一穷二白”的半殖民地半封建社会到世界第二大经济体，中国用几十年时间走完了资本主义国家几百年才走完的路，改革开放后40多年的时间里，我国经济占全球的份额从1.74%增长至超过18%，先进制度对生产力的解放程度，在人类历史上几乎没有先例。
共产主义的优越性不仅体现在能极大解放生产力，更体现在能解放占人类绝大多数的无产者，最终实现共产共享，让每个人都得到自由而全面的发展。《共产党宣言》鲜明地指出：共产主义运动“是绝大多数人的，为绝大多数人谋利益的独立的运动”，共产党人“没有任何同整个无产阶级的利益不同的利益。”中国共产党人是这样说的，也是这样做的。在改革初期允许和鼓励“一部分人先富起来”取得显著成效后，我们党就开始着重强调共同富裕，开启了脱贫攻坚的伟大工程。习近平总书记指出：“目前阶段，实现共同富裕已不仅是经济问题，而且是关系党的执政基础的重大政治问题”。
党的十八大以来，25.5万个驻村工作队挺进一线，近200万名乡镇干部、数百万村干部倾力奋战，实现了9899万农村贫困人口全部脱贫，832个贫困县全部摘帽，12.8万个贫困村全部出列。建党百年前夕，浙江省被列为全国第一个“共同富裕示范区”，而中国共产党诞生地嘉兴市，已是城乡收入差距全国最小的地区，兑现着共产党人的初心之诺。
国家的经济腾飞给青年提供了制度优越的鲜活证明，共同富裕的生动实践向青年展现了共产主义的人间美好，同时也带给青年丰裕的生活条件和充分的发展机会，这奠定了他们鲜红的思想底色。当前，复兴伟业正处关键时期，压力和困难可能构成一些思想迷雾，我们要用建立在事实上的思想逻辑，帮助青年看清“东升西降”的大势，认识社会主义必将胜利的规律，在中华民族不可阻挡的复兴步伐中，夯实中国青年的信仰之基。
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《中国共产党章程》载明：“中国共产主义青年团是中国共产党领导的先进青年的群团组织，是广大青年在实践中学习中国特色社会主义和共产主义的学校，是党的助手和后备军。”
共青团“政治学校”的职能，从它孕育的那天起，就被设定。党的一大专门研究了建立和发展青年团作为党的预备学校的问题。团的二大就团员教育和青年群众教育专门作出决议：“教育工作是本团根本工作之一，以共产主义的原则和国民革命的理论教育青年工人、农民、学生群众是本团最重大的责任。”
一百年来，共青团忠实于自己的使命，努力推进马克思主义青年化，引导青年接受党的理论主张、树立共产主义远大理想，深刻形塑了一代代中国青年的思想观念和价值取向，在他们追求进步的成长历程中发挥了重要作用、留下了深刻印记，演绎了“为党育人”的光辉历史。
2013年和2018年，习近平总书记在同团中央新一届领导班子两次集体谈话中，明确要求共青团要“把培养社会主义建设者和接班人作为根本任务”。响应党的号召，共青团组织创造性地开展工作。“青年大学习”连续多年开展，每周吸引超过5000万人次团员青年参加。规模达2万人的青年讲师团队伍，组成了理论宣讲轻骑兵。青年马克思主义者培养工程，累计已有300多万各领域优秀青年受到了政治锻造。在2021年“学党史、强信念、跟党走”活动中，全团累计开展活动472万场，覆盖99.6%的团支部，3.2亿人次青年直接参加。全团“我的中国梦”主题团日活动，超过2.4亿人次青年参与。还广泛开展了“向上向善好青年”“中国青年好网民”等活动，积极培育弘扬社会主义核心价值观。
共产主义信仰的最新理论形态是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，它富有创建的思想、观点和论断，对马克思主义作出原创性、时代性贡献，是当代中国马克思主义、21世纪马克思主义，是马克思主义中国化的第三次飞跃。根据新的时代要求，共青团中央明确提出：“共青团的主责主业，就是在青年中广泛传播马克思主义和共产主义、传播党的思想主张、传播习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想。”新时代共青团共产主义教育的重中之重，就是做好党的创新理论的“青年化”阐释解读，用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想武装青年头脑，指导青年行动。
旌旗引路，战鼓催征。2021年11月，党的十九届六中全会通过《中共中央关于党的百年奋斗重大成就和历史经验的决议》，决议强调“必须抓好后继有人这个根本大计”。
在庆祝建团百年大会上，习近平总书记再次提出殷切希望：共青团作为广大青年在实践中学习中国特色社会主义和共产主义的学校，要帮助青年“从内心深处厚植对党的信赖、对中国特色社会主义的信心、对马克思主义的信仰。要立足党的事业后继有人这一根本大计，牢牢把握培养社会主义建设者和接班人这个根本任务，引导广大青年在思想洗礼、在实践锻造中不断增强做中国人的志气、骨气、底气，让革命薪火代代相传！”
旗帜鲜明地为党培养马克思主义及其中国化成果的坚定信仰者、忠实实践者，成为共青团这所“政治学校”在新征程上的历史任务。
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共产主义者的信仰，是对人类社会历史发展规律的敬畏，是对揭示这种规律的客观真理的追求。这一信仰，需要历史的接力和信念的传递。今天我们所从事的中国特色社会主义事业，就是马克思主义在当代中国的伟大实践。
习近平总书记指出：“实现共产主义是我们共产党人的最高理想，而这个最高理想是需要一代又一代人接力奋斗的。如果大家都觉得这是看不见摸不着的东西，没有必要为之奋斗和牺牲，那共产主义就真的永远实现不了了。我们现在坚持和发展中国特色社会主义，就是向着最高理想所进行的实实在在的努力。”
不少学者认为，“使命性”是中国共产党能够走过百年辉煌历史的关键因素之一。中国共产党一经成立，就把实现共产主义作为党的最高理想和最终目标，义无反顾肩负起实现中华民族伟大复兴的历史使命，团结带领人民进行了艰苦卓绝的斗争，谱写了气吞山河的壮丽史诗。作为党的助手和后备军，中国共青团随党而生，跟党前进，团结带领青年为党的理想接续奋斗，绘就了百年党史中闪光的青春篇章。
中国先进青年自从寻找到马克思主义真理，就矢志不渝地坚守自己的政治信仰。前进途中虽有各种冲击挑战，但共产主义信仰没有辜负中国，经受住了历史考验，始终闪耀着真理的光辉。社会主义中国向世界展示着道路自信、理论自信、制度自信和文化自信，中国青年正朝着共产主义的远大目标，在青春赛道上奋力奔跑。
一百年的绵延奔涌，中国青年的信仰之河，有过徘徊，历经曲折，终向东流。历史大潮正关前蓄势，即将闯过险峻的关隘，奔向更广阔的大海。
It's not easy to break through the level, who is it for me to run away?
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We reply with a passage from Li Dazhao, a pioneer of the Chinese communist movement: "Our Yangtze River and Yellow River can represent our national spirit. When the Yangtze River and Yellow River meet deserts and mountain gorges, they flow forward in a mighty manner to make them turbid. The flow is rolling, and the momentum is pouring down thousands of miles. How can the current difficult realm hinder the progress of our nation's life. We should show a vigorous spirit, sing the tune of progress, and walk through this rough and tragic song in this tragic song perilous road."
Young people, our mission is to struggle!
Zhong Qingping Source: China Youth Daily