Is the construction of clean government a kind of cultural construction, and in what sense does clean government belong to the category of culture? Such problems all involve the cultural connotation of clean government.
Generally speaking, clean government is not only the concept of political management, but also the category of political ethics. Because the main body of the theme of clean government refers to both government workers and government departments, the former is an official product, and the latter is a party style and political style, because it requires special people related to the use of power. What is a clean government? There is a visual description in the traditional saying, that is, "healthy body, clean hands." The so-called righteousness refers to being loyal to one's duties, adhering to principles, acting impartially and not favoritism; The so-called breeze means not being greedy for wealth, not seeking personal gain, not taking bribes and bending the law, not abusing power for personal gain, and not taking advantage of the public. Because in ancient times, official uniforms can be loaded with fat sleeves, and when the sleeves are shaken, they often shake out money and bribes. Therefore, an honest official is exactly what Mencius said: "Poverty cannot be moved, power cannot be bent, and wealth cannot be lewd." This is the basic requirement and personality of an intellectual and an official.
But being honest and upright is not only a concept of political ethics, because whether an official is honest or not depends not only on the strictness of government rules and workplace requirements, but also on the clarity of a series of cultural ideas such as his ideals and beliefs, behavior rules, value standards, moral principles and significance of existence, and more importantly, on his loyalty to these cultural ideas and his consciousness of implementation. In this sense, clean government is also a kind of culture. Of course, there are many definitions of culture. According to the statement put forward by UNESCO and accepted by many scholars at present, culture is a way of life and thinking of human beings. This sentence can be explained by another common saying nowadays. Culture is people's specific "rules of the game". It is this "rules of the game" that creates order and standards for the qualifications of social people.
There are different levels of cultural expression. Generally speaking, it can be divided into several levels, namely material culture, institutional culture and psychological culture. This is a series from the shallow to the deep, step by step and deepening, which shows the order and direction of the cultural development process. Giving an honest official a certificate of commendation and honor can make people admire and feel glorious and decent, but it is not necessarily a deliberate pursuit of learning and conscious alignment, because this is only a superficial effect. After all, there are always a few advanced and excellent ones. Those who want to commend and encourage, set up advanced purposes and are good at political operation are indifferent. Strict institutional requirements, specific implementation norms, and severe punishment scales will make people feel awe and even fear, but they may not necessarily be surrendered from the heart. Often some people are duplicitous, because rational acceptance is not real acceptance. Knowing what is right doesn't necessarily mean doing it, because there is often "inner evil" that will produce stronger temptation and resistance. As long as there is a "difference of one thought", it may become a "difference of one thought", but the difference of one thought is not necessarily a lifelong regret. Many people often have such luck. Only psychological and emotional acceptance is the most thorough acceptance. When an idea becomes a psychological mechanism, the behavior that follows this idea can be truly conscious, which is an indispensable cultural acceptance.
Culture is the only unrepeatable psychological mechanism in the world, and it is also the most powerful behavior rule. The difficulty of a clean government is that it is difficult to be conscious from the bottom of your heart. Educational discipline, supervision mechanism and reward and punishment measures are all external and contradictory external causes. External cause is the condition, internal cause is the basis of change, and external cause can only play a role through internal cause, which is a major principle of materialist dialectics. Therefore, a clean government must rely on the power of culture, starting with the construction of material culture and institutional culture and going deep into the construction of psychological culture. Only in this way can we have a strong psychological mechanism to keep the last line of defense of "heaven knows the earth, you know me", and it is possible to regard clean government as a world outlook and outlook on life, and to turn the requirements of clean government into "gods". This is the starting point and essence of the construction of clean government culture in Yinzhou District.
To sum up, the construction of clean government culture is a new creation of clean government construction, which conforms to the development principle of clean government construction from the outside to the inside and from the shallow to the deep, and is a creative and possible breakthrough in clean government construction, so it is necessary to pay attention to it and further explore it.
Second, the special significance of the current construction of a clean government culture
Obviously, "clean government culture" appears as the opposite of "corruption culture". This may sound ridiculous, but a careful study of today's social phenomena will reveal that there is indeed a kind of soil and air that breeds corruption. On the material, institutional and psychological levels, a bad culture that encourages corruption has been formed and bred to varying degrees. The negative influence of this culture has greatly distorted the social values in some people's minds. Judging from the practice of anti-corruption in recent years, corruption is still in a state of frequent occurrence. Honest people always can't figure out why the amount of violation of law and discipline is getting bigger and bigger, why the mass corruption of "pulling the ball out of the mud" occurs frequently, and why the crime is committed against the wind, and the previous corruption continues, and the more you catch it, the more you catch it. When something is no longer caused by individual accidental behavior, there must be cultural reasons behind it. Material corruption under the cover of "reciprocity", institutional defects under the cover of "going with the sun and violating the yin" and the popular corruption theory among a group of people under the form of "people are divided into groups", which leads them to open their eyes to each other, connive at the cover-up, and move forward wave after wave, resulting in the overall deformed "rules of the game", a fallacy that is regarded as a classic secret recipe among special people. Some fallacies have been compiled into jokes, jingles and even famous sayings. Their influence is like a mouse spoiling a pot of porridge, which makes the abnormal value judgment produced by corruption spread to the society like bacteria, leading to the strange phenomenon of "laughing at honesty without greed" and "admiring corruption without admiration for honesty" This is the "corruption culture" playing an unimaginable role. "Corruption culture" erodes the party's body like a disease and changes the party style, political style and even folk customs. The purge in the cultural field must use cultural means, overcome cultural backwardness with advanced culture and replace decadent culture with fresh culture. The change of psychological value can not be cultivated by "high salary and honesty", but the system and theoretical education can only play an external role. To really solve the problem, we can only rely on "heart to heart". Corruption is just a phenomenon, but behind it is the distortion of cultural psychology, so it must be corrected by cultural means.
The role of clean government culture is a cultural occupation. People's spiritual space needs to be enriched, as Comrade Mao Zedong said in those days, "If the proletariat does not occupy it, the bourgeoisie will occupy it". The occupation of advanced culture can purify the soul, while bad culture can only play a role of corrosion and distortion. At this point, some thoughts of moral cultivation of the old literati can be used for reference. Of course, what we are talking about is not the content of the set of ideas they spread, but that they have taken "self-cultivation" as an important topic since childhood. From the content of enlightenment to the appearance of teachers, from the standardization of life to the rendering of public opinion, from family education to teacher education, from indoctrination to testing, they are all guiding a social value and guiding an orthodox principle that can regulate behavior, thus becoming a powerful mainstream ideology in society. This ideological system is often summed up in four words: courtesy, justice, honesty and shame. The first two words are interpersonal relationships, and the last two words are moral cultivation. University, one of the main textbooks for students, is devoted to the relationship between "self-cultivation" and housekeeping, governing the country and leveling the world. Taking this example, I just want to show that the means used at that time were all cultural means, so that this mainstream ideology could occupy the minds of literati and let them know what shame is.
Different from the feudal literati culture, the clean government culture we advocate is a vivid practice of Theory of Three Represents and an important part of advanced culture. This kind of culture is aimed at serving the public in the world and practicing the party's mission, which is incomparable to the old culture in tolerance and lofty ideals. However, the two are not unrelated. The culture of clean government not only actively sublates the traditional sense of clean government, but also enriches the brand-new content of contemporary communist world outlook. Moreover, from the practice of Yinzhou District, its particularly noteworthy feature is its popularity. This kind of culture is not a dry sermon, but the most vivid language and content obtained directly from the creation of the masses, expressed in the most acceptable form for cadres and the masses. This is a very important experience. Only by unifying the wishes of the masses and the requirements of party spirit can the culture of clean government become a wonderful flower in contemporary Chinese culture.
It often happens in life. When it comes to corruption, an old saying that is often heard is "the world is getting worse". This is not only the public's dissatisfaction with the anti-corruption efforts, but more importantly, it emphasizes the overall sense of belonging to the "world style." What is the world wind? It is the secular atmosphere, which is the sum of today's party style, political style and folk customs. Secular ethos is a cultural category, which shows that this culture has the characteristics of integrity, and as each branch system of this culture, they interact and grow and decline with each other. In other words, the political style, the people's heart and the people's heart are a whole system that influences and promotes each other. Therefore, the construction of a clean government culture is by no means closed. This must be a socialized project. Education to guide party member cadres and education to guide the masses are two sides of a whole. Party style influences people's customs, public opinion supervises political traces, and forms a strong atmosphere of clean government culture in the whole society, which is another key point of clean government culture construction.
Third, practice culture and cultural practice.
Culture is the unity of means and results. Judging from the practice of clean government culture in Yinzhou District, it is a basic experience to achieve the purpose of cultural construction by means of cultural communication, so as to make clean government culture a practical culture. The life of culture is innovation, and cultural education pays special attention to innovation. What is the keynote of this innovative practice? There are three experiences provided by Yinzhou District, one is mass originality, the other is content visualization, and the third is mass communication means. The originality of the public is the closest to the soul, and the visualized content can have an effect that is deeply rooted in people's hearts and affects the soul. Mass communication can expand the effect and form an atmosphere. This tells us that the acceptance of authenticity, emotion and popularity is a key point of construction. In this case, along this line of thinking, all sincere, emotional and popular movies, newspapers, performing arts, artworks, environmental atmosphere and so on can be included in this construction category.
Since there are different levels of cultural construction, we should respect this law, combine depth with depth, and carry out our work from shallow to deep. It should be gradual and focused. The key point of building a clean government culture is how to form the overall atmosphere of the whole society. Unity is strength, positive, can cultivate a large number of party member cadres who can truly strengthen their beliefs and be upright, supplemented by the backbone of the masses who deeply understand the righteousness and hate it, and create a social atmosphere in which corruption is like a rat crossing the street and everyone shouts, which truly produces party member cadres to win the trust of the people, the people dare to supervise, father and son teach each other, husband and wife encourage each other, and relatives and friends learn from each other. Only in this way can the system of inner-party supervision and mass supervision be implemented, and the distortion can be reversed from the cultural and psychological level, so that the cultural construction at the material, institutional and psychological levels can form a three-legged situation and achieve the effect of clean government that is qualified in all three aspects.
We should study psychology, including case psychology and social psychology. Building cultural psychology with psychology, building a clean and honest culture with clean and honest psychology and building a clean and honest psychology with clean and honest culture are high-end topics in the construction of clean and honest culture. This topic can only be really started in the practice of building a clean and honest culture, which is absolutely essential.
Cultural construction focuses on formation, cultivation, accumulation and atmosphere improvement. Rome was not built in a day. Comrade Deng Xiaoping said: "Our mistake lies in education", which shows that the mainstream ideology has long lacked education, including the education of clean government, and it is not possible to make up for the lack of education overnight. The practice of Yinzhou District is only a breakthrough in the construction of a clean government culture, and there are still many follow-up work that need not only active follow-up, but also perseverance. For the bad style that has been formed, it is impossible to hope that it has a panacea once and for all. It has become a world outlook, and its transformation is bound to be long-term. This work, like the hope project, will have a good comprehensive effect if it persists for several years.