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Defending Party’s Ideological Foundation: Important and Urgent Solutions for Successful Implementation of the 13th National Party Congress

Defending Friday, 14:57 14-05-2021

Defending Party’s ideological foundation and criticizing wrong, hostile views has been a continuous fight since the Party was born and led the People in the revolution for national independence, country union and development in the path of socialism. This article describes the attack on Party’s ideological foundation by hostile and reactionary forces, the achievements and limitations in defending the Party’s ideological foundation and the solutions to protect Party’s ideology in the new situation.


Source: Journal of Political Theory and Communications, no 2 (2020).

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa - Vu Van Kieu

Assoc. Prof., PhD, Academy of Journalism and Communication - MSc, Academy of Journalism and Communication

A look at the History and Application of Critical Theory

Abstract: Researchers who supported the idea of critical theory based their argument on the assumption that there is always a need for criticism in order to promote changes in society. The ultimate goal of critical theory, rather than predicting, explaining, or understanding social phenomenon, is to point out problems and pushing the decision of transformation. Critical theory assumed that the phenomenon is already existed and the inequality can only be addressed by reorganizing the society. This theory is inherently influenced by Marxism and the analytical ideas of Karl Marx. Although the researching process still involves the action of observing, analyzing, but the core idea of critical theory, as its name suggested, is to pursue changes through criticizing. There are six key concepts of this theory: text, meaning, culture, polysemy, hegemony, and ideology. It is because of its diversity that critical theory has very high applicability in the field of social studies and communication. This article aims to present an overview of the development history of critical theory and one of its outstanding applications – reader response theory.