Abstract: Digital ideological and political education represents a new form of ideological and political education in the era of digital and intelligent technologies. Examining its internal structure of contradictions from a philosophical perspective is of considerable significance. Guided by historical materialism, this paper argues that the contradictory relationship between the ideologization of data and the datafication of thought constitutes the fundamental contradiction of digital ideological and political education. Specifically, the datafication of thought reflects the operation of digital productive forces in the realm of thought, while the ideologization of data embodies the core mechanism of digital production relations. The dialectical movement between the two constitutes a distinctive mode of knowledge production in digital ideological and political education. This fundamental contradiction further unfolds into three concrete contradictions: the contradiction between the datafication of social existence and the data-driven construction of social consciousness, that between digital productive forces and digital relations of social interaction, and that between digital ideology and real social consciousness. In practice, these contradictions are manifested in the deep entanglement of the logic of recognition, the logic of capital, and disciplinary logic, whose shifting balance shapes the practical trajectory of digital ideological and political education. To properly navigate this system of contradictions, it is necessary to proceed from the dialectical relationship between productive forces and production relations and to establish practical principles at the technological, institutional, and subjective levels, so as to ensure that digital ideological and political education fulfills its fundamental mission of fostering virtue and cultivating well-rounded individuals.

Key words: digital ideological and political education, historical materialism, digital productive forces, digital production relations, ideologization of data, datafication of thought