当代世界民主发展视野中的全过程人民民主

Whole-Process Democracy in the Perspective of Democratic Development in the Contemporary World

本文从世界民主发展的视角,分析了西方民主发展的现状、问题和挑战,指出西方的民主发展不是历史的终结,自由主义民主制度把民主停留在选举环节,把自由置于民主之上,暴露出西方国家在民主发展方面存在严重的制度缺陷。在世界民主发展的过程中,不少非西方国家把西方自由主义民主制度视为唯一民主发展标杆,限制了它们的民主发展视野。全过程人民民主是中国长期探索民主发展自主道路的结晶,打开了世界民主发展的新视野,增强了世界各国自主发展民主的道路自信。全过程人民民主实现了对西方自由主义民主的超越,将把世界民主发展推向一个新的历史阶段。全过程人民民主蕴含的本体论层次上的动态民主观、认识论层次上的实质民主观和方法论层次上的积极民主观为世界民主发展的理论创新做出了重大贡献。

This paper analyzes the current situation,problems and challenges of Western democracy from the perspective of development of democracy in the world,pointing out that Western democracy is not the end of history.The liberal democratic system equates democracy with election and puts freedom above democracy,exposing serious institutional flaws in the democratic development in Western countries.In the process of democratic development in the world,many non-Western countries regard the Western liberal democratic system as the only benchmark for democratic development,limiting their vision of democratic development.Whole-process democracy is the culmination of China’s long exploration of an autonomous path of democratic development,which has opened new horizons of democratic development in the world and enhanced the confdence of countries in the world in their own path of democratic development.The authors argue that whole-process democracy has surpassed Western liberal democracy and will take up the torch of democratic development in the world,pushing it into a new historical stage.The dynamic view of democracy at the ontological level,the substantive view of democracy at the epistemological level and the positive view of democracy at the methodological level embedded in whole-process democracy have made significant contributions to theoretical innovation of the development of democracy in the world.