论艾伦·伍德的历史唯物主义民主观

On Ellen Wood's Historical Materialistic Democracy

针对西方一些左翼分子借新社会运动的兴起和工人阶级革命运动的暂时沉寂,将工人阶级排除于社会主义的核心战略之外,而把资本主义民主视为代替阶级斗争的历史动力和通往社会主义的"灵丹妙药"的倒退行径,伍德愤然予以驳斥,她从历史唯物主义的视野考察民主概念的变迁,质疑通过拓展资本主义民主就能实现社会主义的乌托邦幻想,批判资产阶级民主与资本主义社会是一体同质的,只有社会主义民主才是反对资本主义的利剑。伍德在揭露资本主义民主虚伪性的同时,重新厘清了社会主义与民主之间的关系,为我们树立正确的民主观提供了有益的启发。

According to some western left-wing intellectuals, the working class should be excluded from the core of socialist scheme and capitalist democracy could be regarded as a historical driving force for substituting class struggle and a ＂panacea＂ for realizing socialism. With anger, Wood refuted it by exploring the conceptual changes of democracy from the perspective of historical materialism and questioning the utopian fantasy of achieving socialism through expanding capitalist democracy. She then claimed that capitalist democracy and capitalist society were homogeneous and it was only socialist democracy that could work as a powerful weapon against capitalist society. Furthermore, Wood clarified the relationship between socialism and democracy while revealing the hypocrisy of capitalist democracy, which provides beneficial inspirations for us to uphold the right views of democracy.