邓小平同志是一个伟大的马克思主义者和无产阶级革命家,一生为共产主义的事业而奋斗;同时,他也是一个伟大的爱国主义者,一生为争取中华民族的自由、幸福和富强而斗争.他说:“我是中国人民的儿子,我深情地爱着我的祖国和人民.”在《邓小平文选》第三卷中,他对当代中国的爱国主义做了许多重要论述,使之成为建设有中国特色社会主义理论的重要内容之一.考察邓小平一生的爱国主义实践和研究《邓小平文选》第三卷中的爱国主义思想,我们可以看出以下三个显著的特点:一、爱国主义与追求祖国繁荣富强相联系在经济上改变祖国贫穷落后 Comrade Deng Xiaoping, a great Marxist and proletarian revolutionary, worked hard for his communist career in his life. At the same time, he was also a great patriot who fought for the freedom, happiness and prosperity of the Chinese nation throughout his life. : “I am the son of the Chinese people, and I have a deep affection for my motherland and people.” In the third volume of Deng Xiaoping’s anthology, he made a number of important expositions on contemporary China’s patriotism, One of the important contents of the theory of distinctive socialism.On the basis of examining Deng Xiaoping’s patriotic practice in his life and studying the patriotism in the third volume of Deng Xiaoping’s anthology, we can see the following three salient features: First, patriotism and the pursuit of the motherland Prosperity is linked to economic change in the poor and backward of the motherland