Seeking a single spark can start a prairie fire.

Some thoughts on reading A single spark can start a prairie fire

I've always been curious about some articles in Selected Works of Mao Zedong, but for personal reasons, I didn't take a look. Now I finally have the opportunity and time to pick up this book and read one of them, "A single spark can start a prairie fire", which deeply touched my heart. "A single spark can start a prairie fire" was originally a letter written by Mao Zedong to Lin Biao in response to a letter from Lin Biao asking for advice on how to estimate the future of the Red Army. In this letter, Mao Zedong criticized Lin Biao and some comrades in the Party for their pessimistic thoughts about the current situation. 1948, Lin Biao proposed to the Central Committee that his name should not be mentioned when this letter was published publicly. Mao Zedong agrees with this opinion.

"A single spark can start a prairie fire" is an old saying of China. In other words, although new things have only a little strength now, they will develop quickly and have a bright future. The quotation of this sentence is: Ming? Zhang replied to Yunnan Governor He Laishan's comments on foreign sentiment: "All the incidents in recent years were provoked by incompetent Wu Zhi and greedy and unscrupulous traitors who broke in from all directions. A single spark can start a prairie fire. " Ming? He Shengfeng's "Letter to All Nationalities": "Everything in the world starts from small, ends with caution, and cannot be careless. A single spark can start a prairie fire, and an ant colony will burst its banks. I am afraid of his death, so I am afraid of his beginning. "

1927 After the failure of the Great Revolution, Comrade Mao Zedong used this metaphor to describe the China Revolution. He believes that under the environment of China, the "single spark" of revolution not only has the possibility of development, but also has the inevitability of development. Thus, "a single spark can start a prairie fire" has become a representative expression of China's revolutionary forces from small to large, from weak to strong, and finally achieved complete victory.

Mao Zedong's "A single spark can start a prairie fire" stabilized countless comrades in the Party at that time and made them see hope. A single spark can start a prairie fire. It is this single spark that makes the red flag of victory fly all over China, lighting the beacon of China revolution and pointing out the way forward. With the firm belief that "a single spark can start a prairie fire" and the hard-working style of "fighting hard", our party has overcome one difficulty after another and won one victory after another. It is the sparks of countless revolutionary martyrs that have gathered into a vigorous revolutionary torch, illuminating the way forward and realizing the victory of the new-democratic revolution. It is precisely because of these outstanding revolutionaries and military strategists' firm belief in the China revolution that the flame of the revolution can continue.

Although the new revolutionary force is weak at first, it is the development direction of advanced productive forces and represents the trend of future revolutionary development. Although the old forces are powerful, they will eventually be replaced by new ones. Comrade Mao Zedong believes that we must look at the essence of things, which is a reliable and scientific analysis method. This view was fully proved after the Great Revolution.

But when can a single spark start a prairie fire? This was the concern of many comrades at that time. This issue is also of practical significance today. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, the socialist movement has been at a low ebb in the international context. Many people say that socialism is too far away, but it is actually a feeling of losing confidence-pessimism and disappointment. This kind of mood is similar to yesterday more than 70 years ago!

General Secretary Hu Jintao said at this year's national working conference and meeting with French journalists: The stability of a society depends on strong political leadership, economic development and good system and legal system. At the same time, the ideological stability of all social members is also an extremely important condition. History and society have shown that it is difficult to ensure social stability without the spiritual pillar of unity and ideological stability based on it.

Marxists are not fortune tellers. We should and can only give a general direction to the future development and change, and we should not and cannot set the time mechanically. Otherwise, you will fall into the quagmire of idealism. In Comrade Mao Zedong's view, the climax of the China revolution is coming, which is by no means an empty thing with no action significance, but can only be expected. It was a ship standing on the coast overlooking the sea, and the top of the mast could already be seen. It was a bright morning sun standing on the top of the mountain, looking to the east. It was a mature baby restless in her mother's womb. It is worth mentioning that Mao Zedong didn't make himself a prisoner of prophecy, and his ideals didn't always work, but could be realized in a short time. But behind the ideal, there must be hard exploration and hard work, perfect thinking and consistent goals. "Without revolutionary theory, there will be no revolutionary action", and history has given a better interpretation of all this.

In short, looking at the full text, the extension of "a single spark can start a prairie fire" today can not only bring us a positive and optimistic attitude that is not afraid of power, but also be moved by the experience and lessons written with blood by countless people with lofty ideals and the immortal national enterprising spirit left behind. The fire of starting a prairie fire is whistling in the land of China, burning the passion of a new generation and heading for a new journey of national rejuvenation! As part of the cause of building Socialism with Chinese characteristics, we are like a single spark on the vast plain. As long as we firmly believe in our spiritual pillar and the thought based on it, and make unremitting efforts for it, we can see the trend of starting a prairie fire in the socialist cause.