中国式民主对马克思主义民主观的继承和发展

The Chinese Style Democracy Inherits and Develops the Marxist Concept of Democracy

中国共产党在推进中国特色社会主义民主政治建设的进程中,始终坚持马克思主义民主观的本质规定和核心要义,同时走出了符合中国国情的发展道路。在民主实质上,将无产阶级的“阶级民主”,经由夺取政权、变革生产关系和社会结构,发展到无产阶级领导的、各民主阶级联合的“人民民主”,从而实现了“民主”与“专政”的统一;在民主原则上,将马克思和恩格斯最初设想的“完全民主制”,经由列宁的“民主的集中制”发展到“民主集中制”,从而实现了“民主”与“集中”的统一;在民主形式上,将巴黎公社、工农兵代表苏维埃、全国人民代表大会探索实践出的“普选民主”“代议民主”,经由“议行合一”的新型民主和独具特色的“协商民主”,发展到“全过程民主”,从而实现了过程民主和成果民主、程序民主和实质民主、直接民主和间接民主、人民民主和国家意志的统一。

In the process of promoting the socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, the CPC has always adhered to the essential provisions and key points of the Marxist concept of democracy and embarked on a development path suited to China’s national conditions. In terms of the essence of democracy, the "class democracy" of the proletariats was developed into the "people’s democracy" led by the proletariats and participated by all democratic classes through seizing political power and changing production relations and social structure, thus realizing the unity of "democracy" and "dictatorship";in terms of the principle of democracy, the "complete democracy" originally conceived by Marx and Engels was developed into "democratic centralism" through Lenin’s "democratic centralism", thus realizing the unity of "democracy" and "centralization";in terms of the form of democracy, the "universal suffrage democracy" and "representative democracy" explored and practiced by the Paris Commune, the Soviet Republic representing the workers, peasants and soldiers and the Chinese National People’s Congress have been developed into "wholeprocess democracy" through the new democracy of "integration of legislative and executive powers" and the unique "consultative democracy", thus realizing the unity of process democracy and result democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy,direct democracy and indirect democracy, and people’s democracy and the will of the state.