江泽民总书记5月29日在中央党校的讲话特别强调了“举旗”问题,并明确指出,邓小平建设有中国特色社会主义理论“是当代中国的马克思主义,是马克思主义在中国发展的新阶段”。“在当代中国,只有这个理论而没有别的理论能够解决社会主义的前途和命运问题”。“新阶段”之论断的提出是有充分根据的。因为在十一届三中全会以来的历史新时期,邓小平同志带领中国共产党人把马克思主义同中国的社会主义实践相结合,确实产生了思想理论上的伟大历史性新飞跃。毛泽东领导中国共产党人创造性地运用马克思主义,解决了中国革命的 General Secretary Jiang Zemin’s speech at the Central Party School on 29 May laid particular stress on “raising the flag,” and clearly pointed out that Deng Xiaoping’s theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics “is Marxism in contemporary China and a new phase in the development of Marxism in China ”. “In contemporary China, only this theory and no other theory can solve the issue of the future and destiny of socialism.” The assertion of “new stage” is well founded. Because Comrade Deng Xiaoping led the Chinese Communists to combine Marxism with the practice of socialism in China in the new historical period since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, indeed, it has made a great historic leap in ideology and theory. Mao Zedong Led Chinese Communists to Use Marxism Creatively and Solved the Problems of Chinese Revolution