党风理论是党风建设的依据。党风方面出现严重问题,反映了党风建设理论的偏颇和滞后。当然,党内存在不正之风是个综合症,它的产生和发展有其历史原因,社会原因、经济原因、体制原因和思想原因,等等。本文仅就党风理论方面谈几点认识。一、正确认识和评估党风状况正确认识和评估党风状况,是搞好党风建设的基本前提。1980年,陈云同志提出“执政党的党风问题是有关党的生死存亡的问题”的科学论断。十年来,这个科学论断几次载入党的重要文献,并为党内外所熟知。但是,党内对这一论断的理解是不尽相同的,甚至存在很大差距。党内一部分同志,特别是一些领导干部,对这一论断只限于作抽象的理解,对“生死 The theory of party style is the basis for building style of party work. The serious problems in the party’s style of work have reflected the biasedness and lag of the theory of party style building. Of course, the unhealthy tenure in the party is a syndrome. Its emergence and development have their historical reasons, social reasons, economic reasons, institutional reasons and ideological reasons, and so on. This article only talked about the theory of the style of the party. I. Correctly Understanding and Assessing the Status of the Party’s Winds Correctly understanding and assessing the status of the party’s winds is the basic premise for doing a good job in building a party’s style of work. In 1980, Comrade Chen Yun put forward the scientific thesis that “the ruling party’s style of work is a matter of life or death of the party.” Over the past decade, this scientific thesis has been loaded into the party’s important documents on several occasions and is well known both inside and outside the party. However, the party’s understanding of this thesis is not the same, and even there is a big gap. Some comrades in the party, especially some leading cadres, have confined this thesis to abstract understandings,