Political culture of political cadres at the platoon level of the Vietnam People's Army today

In summary, the concepts of culture have been expressed in basic aspects: first, culture is the spiritual life of humans, of the community and human society; second, culture is the whole of material and spiritual values created by humans; third, culture is the way of life and survival of humans, of the community, of human society. Accordingly, it can be understood that: Culture is the whole of material and spiritual values created by humans in the historical process, reflecting truth, goodness, and beauty to satisfy the desire to live of humans and human society.

The above concept shows that culture is the sum of material and spiritual values created by humans. Material values are tools for daily life, methods of use, applications that satisfy living comforts and satisfy material and spiritual needs. Spiritual values reflect the field of spiritual creativity and organization of spiritual life of humans and communities. Including customs, habits, lifestyles, legal regulations, ethical standards, aesthetics, ideologies, psychology, emotions... of a community. Therefore, material and spiritual values must reflect the laws of truth, goodness, and beauty to be considered culture. Each field of activity also has its own cultural nuances: legal culture, social culture, economic culture, communication culture, ethical culture, aesthetic culture, political culture, leadership culture, management culture... However, culture is the sum of the relationships between people and the world, the relationship between people and society. That is to say, talking about culture is talking about people, people cannot be separated from society, only through the community, between people and people can culture be created and formed. The core nature of culture is the value of truth, goodness, and beauty of each individual and each community.

From a socio-political perspective, the author approaches individual culture in relation to community culture; humans are considered creative subjects.

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culture, and at the same time, the subject of receiving and enjoying culture. Personal culture is the level of the individual. It is the sum of factors, values of worldview, knowledge, ideology, emotions, behavior and professional level... the results of each individual's activities in relation to the community.

* Political culture

Politics emerged when society was divided into classes and the state was formed. According to Marxism-Leninism: “Politics is the struggle between classes; politics is the attitude of the proletariat struggling to liberate itself against the bourgeoisie of the whole world” [69, p.482]. Politics is the history of the class struggle of each group of people fighting for their political power, using political power to realize class interests, build society, and meet the demands and aspirations of the class; different class interests have different political goals and political natures. The Vietnamese Encyclopedia defines politics as follows:

Politics is all activities related to the relationships between classes, between nations, and social strata, the core of which is the issue of seizing power, maintaining and using state power, participating in state affairs, determining the form of organization, tasks, and content of state activities. Any political issue is related to the interests of classes and the state. Politics belongs to the superstructure, including political ideology, the state, and parties that appear when society is divided into classes based on the economic infrastructure [164, 603].

With the above approach , politics can be understood as a historical category, reflecting the relationship of interests and socio-economic status between classes and the state, through gaining, keeping, maintaining, exercising state power, managing and developing society according to the will and purposes of classes and society under certain conditions.

Approached from a cultural perspective, politics is considered as a cultural value created by humans. The subject of politics is humans, the community of people in a class society, therefore politics is also a cultural product created by humans. The political system, political institutions, political mechanisms and political subjects in a certain period are all products of the level of cultural development. Political culture is an aspect of culture from a political perspective. Political culture reflects on all aspects and areas of political life, it is expressed through the current political guidelines, viewpoints, institutions and political behavior of the subjects. Therefore, V. Lenin especially emphasized the importance of the new political culture to build a socialist state:

The political cultural purpose of political education is to train true communists, capable of overcoming lies and prejudices and capable of helping the working masses overcome the old regime and build a state without capitalists, exploiters and landlords [69, p.479].

In Vietnam, theoretical researchers also apply the methodology of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought to study political culture. For example, author Song Thanh approaches political culture from the perspective of organization and individual:

Political culture is a component of culture, crystallizing knowledge, ideals, ethics and political capacity, influencing the political attitudes and behaviors of an individual or a certain social community. Political culture is formed from the historical experience of the nation and absorbs the quintessence of modern political culture, under the influence of the political ideology of the ruling class or party [138, p.86].

Author Hoang Chi Bao:

Political culture is the synthetic quality of knowledge, emotions, and political beliefs that form citizens' political consciousness, motivating them to take positive political actions in accordance with the political ideals of society; it is the habit and need to participate consciously and proactively in socio-political activities, becoming the social value of citizens, contributing to guiding them in the struggle for the common interests of society, for progress and development [55, pp.28 - 29].

From the above concepts, it can be seen that political culture includes material values (people, organizations, political apparatus) and spiritual values (ideology, guidelines, policies, viewpoints, political mechanisms, political consciousness and political behavior). In terms of cultural subjects, there are personal political culture and community political culture. Personal political culture is a person, a personality that is governed by the stance and viewpoint of the political institution, and has a class nature. Community political culture such as: social groups, political parties, classes, regions, ethnic groups, and nations have a class nature, a certain social regime, and reflect other attributes that depend on many objective and subjective factors. Personal political culture and community political culture have a dialectical relationship, interacting with each other. The political culture of a social community is the sum of individual cultural values associated with certain specific historical conditions. That is approaching political culture from the perspective of: activities - values - personality.

Inheriting the concept of a number of published scientific works and with the above approach to political culture, it can be conceived that: Political culture is an aspect of culture in a class society, which is the entirety of material and spiritual values created by people and communities in political practice, associated with the stance and viewpoint of the ruling class under certain historical conditions.

Political culture is the product of class society and class struggle; it is the totality of material and spiritual values created by people and human communities in political activities; it is a political reflection and is governed by the political ideology of the ruling class.

Political culture and culture in politics are two concepts with similar connotations, but not identical. President Ho Chi Minh said: "Only with politics can there be culture. In the past, politics was suppressed, so our culture could not arise" [47, p.34]. Culture does not stand outside of politics but is in politics, closely linked to politics. In the 12th Congress Document, our Party affirmed: "Building culture in politics and economics. Pay attention to building culture in the Party, in state agencies and political organizations; considering this an important factor in building a clean and strong political system" [26, p.128]. Talking about political culture means talking about all the true, good and beautiful values of political ideology, organization, activities and political subjects. Political culture is also the status of a "political culture" and a component of culture; related to the activities of organizing and managing community life associated with holding and exercising political and cultural power in practice, winning, keeping, maintaining and exercising state power in each individual and community is a prominent manifestation of political culture. These are values in politics, a culture of submission to politics and making politics more humane and humane. While affirming that "only with politics can there be culture", it is also necessary to see that politics is a cultural value, a way of expressing culture in a social condition with classes and class struggle, that is, with political activities.

* Current Vietnamese political culture

In the context of building socialism, when it comes to politics, it is first of all about ensuring the leadership role of the Communist Party, the management effectiveness of the State, and the mastery of the working people in all areas of life.

social life. Politics in Vietnam today is socialist politics, taking Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh thought as the ideological foundation and compass for all activities of the Party. That is politics reflecting the nature of socialist culture to liberate the class, liberate the nation, liberate society, and liberate people. Politics in our country ensures democracy in the political system, in which the Party is both a part and the leading subject of the political system to ensure a state that is truly of the people, by the people, for the people, with the nature of socialist culture. Our Party affirms:

Focus on building culture in the Party, in state agencies and organizations; consider this an important factor in building a clean and strong political system. In particular, the focus is on building a team of cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees with moral qualities, dedication, wholeheartedly serving the Fatherland, closely attached to the people; having a sense of respect for the law, democracy combined with discipline and order; personal freedom linked to social responsibility and civic duty [25, p.53].

This shows that the revolutionary goal of our Party does not stop at winning and maintaining power but building a State with "people as the root"; cadres and civil servants must take culture as the root, only with culture can they fulfill their duties, overcome bureaucracy, authoritarianism, and distance from the masses.

Thus , the current Vietnamese political culture is an aspect of culture, in which the entire value of political institutions, spirit, capacity, level, and political behavior of Vietnamese people with the nature of the working class is crystallized, formed on the foundation of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh thought, national political tradition and leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam; aiming to successfully carry out the historical mission of the working class to liberate people, liberate society, liberate the class, liberate the nation and successfully build socialism in Vietnam.

The formation and development of Vietnam's current political culture is the process of inheriting, preserving and developing the national political cultural tradition, the political culture of the Ho Chi Minh era and combining the quintessence of human political culture. Those values, under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, further affirm the role and significance of political culture in the political and social life of our country and focus on the following basic characteristics:

Firstly, Vietnamese political culture takes Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought as the ideological foundation and guideline for the Party's actions . That ideology determines the goals, guidelines, strategies, and political tactics, and determines Vietnamese political culture. In the documents of the 8th Central Conference, our Party affirmed: "Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought are applied and creatively developed, increasingly revealing their lasting value as the ideological foundation and guideline for the actions of the Party and of our country's revolution, the leading factor ensuring that social spiritual life develops in the right direction" [21, p.46].

Second, Vietnamese political culture is the inheritance and promotion of traditional values of national political culture and the selective absorption of world political culture . Vietnamese political culture was formed and developed closely with the history of the Vietnamese nation. The traditional cultural values whose core content is love for humanity, national solidarity and benevolence and affection. These political cultural values are constantly supplemented, developed and perfected to suit the new circumstances of Vietnamese political culture. The above values are affirmed in the process of building the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: "Developing the fine traditions of national culture and absorbing new cultures of progressive world culture, to build a Vietnamese culture with national, scientific and popular characteristics" [94, p.40].

Third, Vietnamese political culture has a revolutionary, scientific and humanistic nature. The people are the subject of political culture led by the Party. Politics in our country is built on the foundation of what is right and what is true.

with the ideals and goals of national independence and socialism in line with the characteristics of Vietnam. The revolutionary nature of the Party is reflected in the correct political line to liberate the nation from feudalism and imperialism and successfully build a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people; improve people's lives, ensure democracy, fairness, equality, prosperity and happiness for people. The current successes in nation building demonstrate the scientific and revolutionary political nature of the Party in the process of socialist revolution.

The standards of humanistic values in current Vietnamese political activities, the political culture led by the Communist Party of Vietnam with the goal of taking the people as the root, for the benefit of the working people "rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization" . Here, it shows a unified political system of science - revolution - humanity - humanity, for the people. A democratic political system, building a State of the people, by the people, for the people. The Party's political line always originates from the needs and interests of the nation, people and all people; all political lines of the Party on economy, culture, education... are for the development and progress of society, for every Vietnamese person; along with that, there are measures to eliminate wrongdoings that go against the political interests of the class, state, people and nation of Vietnam.

Vietnamese political culture is an important part of the advanced culture, imbued with the Vietnamese national identity, historically linked to the socialist revolutionary process; requiring knowledge, emotions, beliefs, will, political behavior and political level and capacity of each individual to build a community political culture. As President Ho Chi Minh taught: "To advance to socialism, there must be socialist people, to have socialist people, there must be socialist ideology, to have socialist ideology, there must be a cleansing of individualist ideology" [108, p.11]. Therefore, there cannot be a socialist state of Vietnam without people

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