“人民民主是社会主义的生命”释论

On People’s Democracy as the Lifeblood of Socialism

在党的二十大报告中,习近平总书记再次重申,“人民民主是社会主义的生命”。之所以说人民民主是社会主义的生命,主要有以下几点原因。首先,人民民主是社会主义的本质,体现了社会主义的根本目的,社会主义以确立和实现人民民主为根本价值追求,没有民主就没有社会主义。其次,要保障人民民主的实现,就必须建构起保障人民当家作主的制度机制。人民代表大会制度为我国的根本政治制度,中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度、民族区域自治制度、基层群众自治制度为我国的基本政治制度,而协商民主是这些民主制度的运行形式。再次,社会主义事业必须依靠人民群众的努力与创造,只有发扬人民民主才能调动人民群众的主动性、积极性、创造性,人民民主由此成为社会主义的活力。最后,为了实现共产主义的远大理想,必须在社会主义阶段充分发扬人民民主,使人民养成民主的思维和民主的习惯,从而为共产主义社会下的个人高度自治、自律、自由、自主奠定人性基础。

In the Report of the 20th CPC National Congress,General Secretary Xi Jinping restated that“people’s democracy is the lifeblood of socialism”.The reason behind this statement is that,firstly,people’s democracy is the essence of socialism and embodies the fundamental purpose of socialism.Socialism takes the establishment and realization of people’s democracy as its fundamental value pursuit,and socialism could not be realized without democracy.Secondly,it is necessary to construct a people’s participation mechanism to guarantee the realization of people’s democracy.The system of people’s congress,the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC,the system of regional ethnic autonomy,and the system of community-level self-governance are foundational political systems in China,and consultative democracy is the way that operates through all these political systems.Thirdly,building socialism must rely on the efforts and creativity of the people.We can only inspire people’s motivation,initiative,and creativity by promoting people’s democracy;thus,people’s democracy is the vitality of socialism.Finally,to achieve the noble ideal of communism,we must practice people’s democracy in the stage of socialism to develop people’s democratic thinking pattern and habit,thereby laying the humanistic basis for people’s self-governing,self-discipline,freedom and autonomy in communist society.