马克思的民主思想及其理论启示

The Ideas of Marxism Democracy and its Theoretical Enlightenment

马克思通过批判继承西方民主思想,从历史唯物主义自由观的逻辑起点对民主的本质进行了阐释,即民主的本质是人民当家作主,同时,马克思对民主的形式进行了论述,肯定了间接民主的合理性,并认为普选制是民主制的手段。马克思的民主思想对于当前我国社会主义民主实践有着重要的理论启示:即民主是具体的;民主是历史的;实质民主比程序民主更重要。

Through critically inheriting western democratic thoughts,Marx interprets the nature of democracy that people are masters of the country from the logical basis of the historical material freedom view ,meanwhile, Marx discusses the form of democracy,affirms its rationality,and considers that the general election system is a mean of the democracy.The ideas of Marxism Democracy has the important theoretical enlightenment to the current Chinese socialist construction of democracy that democracy is concrete and historical,and that the essence democracy is more important than the procedure democracy.