江泽民对爱国主义以及爱国主义教育有一系列论述。一是爱国同建设有中国特色社会主义相结合 ,使我军爱国主义教育的主题更加鲜明 ;二是论述了爱国与爱党相统一的原则 ,把坚持党的绝对领导确定为我军爱国主义教育的首要任务 ;三是充分肯定了爱国主义在思想政治建设中的作用 ,确定了抓好以爱国奉献为重要内容的“四个教育”的思想 ,四是提出了思想政治教育一定要适应改革开放的新要求 ,使爱国主义教育迈开了开放式教育的新路子 Jiang Zemin has a series of expositions on patriotism and patriotism education. First, combining patriotism with the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics to make the theme of patriotism education in our armed forces clearer. Second, it elaborates the principle of unification of patriotism and love of the party, confirms the absolute leadership of the party as the patriotic education of our armed forces Thirdly, it fully affirmed the role of patriotism in ideological and political construction, determined the idea of ​​“four education” that takes patriotic dedication as the important content, and proposed that ideological and political education must be adapted to the reform and opening up The new requirements of patriotism education opened the door to a new path of open education