思想政治工作是代替人思想还是启发人思想?这是人们在反思思想政治工作时提出的一个深刻的问题。从我们准备建立的市场经济体制目标来看,从市场经济对人的素质提出的要求来看,答案只能是后者。当然,启发人思想并不是放弃责任,党组织在改革中依然要发挥导向指航的作用。然而,导向指航要真正起作用,就需要人们能够理解、接受,换句话说,就需要人们自己思想、自我教育。其实,提倡“自我教育”也是我们党的思想政治工作的优良传统,只 Does ideological and political work replace people’s thinking or inspire people’s thoughts? This is a profound question raised by people when they reflect on ideological and political work. From the objective of the market economic system that we are going to establish, the answer to the question posed by the market economy on the quality of human beings can only be the latter. Of course, enlightening people’s thinking is not to abandon their responsibility. Party organizations still have to play a guiding role in the reform. However, to guide the pilot to really work requires people to understand and accept, in other words, people need their own thoughts and self-education. In fact, advocating “self-education” is also an excellent tradition of our party’s ideological and political work. Only