伯恩施坦民主观:一个批判性分析

A Critical Analysis of Eduard Bernstein's View of Democracy

从自由主义民主立场出发,伯恩施坦认为民主意味着不存在统治阶级,否定了马克思的阶级民主概念;主张民主包含了法制、有限多数和妥协原则,否定了马克思的无产阶级专政理论。以自由主义为中介,伯恩施坦指出民主是社会主义的本质,主张通过完善自由主义民主制度使资本主义和平长成社会主义,要求放弃无产阶级革命,改变无产阶级政党的革命性质。我们需要批判地分析伯恩施坦的民主观,以澄清对马克思思想的误解,坚持和发展马克思主义民主理论。

From the standpoint of liberal democracy, Eduard Bernstein defined democracy as no existence of ruling class in the society and rejected Karl Marx＇s concept of class democracy. For Bernstein, the democratic principles included the rule of law, limited majority and compromise. Based on this democratic view, Bernstein demanded the abandonment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Regarding democracy as the essence of socialism, Bernstein advocated to transit capitalism into socialism peacefully by improving the liberal democratic system and to abandon the proletarian revolution with changing the revolutionary nature of the proletarian party. In order to clarify his misunderstanding of Marx＇ thought and to develop the Marxist theory of democracy, we need to critically analyze Bernstein＇s democratic thought.