全过程人民民主是实实在在的真民主——人民民主理念的实现形式、实现条件和实践方法

The Whole-Process People's Democracy Is a Genuine Democracy-The Form,Conditions and Practical Methods for Realizing the Idea of People's Democracy

社会主义人民民主与西式民主具有本质不同的民主理念,从而产生了本质不同的实现形式。西式民主理念的实现形式是垄断资本集团通过政党竞争争夺政治权力的“选举日民主”,人民通过选票进行“权力转让”而使自身丧失政治权力。社会主义人民民主奉行“人民当家作主”的理念,人民主权不可转让,而是将其权力委托给承担历史责任的党和政府,由党领导人民依法当家作主。领导者只是“经手”权力而非“占有”权力,不能从自己经手的权力中获取任何私利。因此,其实现形式必然是全过程人民民主。在新时代,全过程人民民主具备了经济、政治、文化、历史方面的实现条件,由此应运而生。全过程人民民主在付诸实践的过程中必然产生主观目的与客观现实的矛盾,在发现、分析和解决这些矛盾的过程中生成了实现全过程人民民主的实践方法,其体现于党的领导与人民群众关系的全过程、民主决策全过程与民主施政全过程、领导干部的选拔管理与监督的全过程三个方面,由此使全过程人民民主的理念通过实践而逐步得到实现。

Socialist people's democracy and Western-style democracy have fundamentally different concepts of democracy,and thus fundamentally different forms of realization.Western-style democracy is realized in the form of"election day democracy"in which monopoly capitalist groups compete for political power through political parties,and the people lose their political power through the"transfer of power"of their votes.Socialist people's democracy is based on the concept of"the people are the masters",and the sovereignty of the people cannot be transferred,but their power is entrusted to the Party and the government,which bear historical responsibility,and the Party leads the people to be the masters according to the law.The leader only"handles"the power,not"possesses"it,and cannot obtain any personal benefit from the power he handles.Therefore,its realization must be in the form of whole-process people's democracy.In the new era,the whole-process people's democracy has the economic,political,cultural and historical conditions for its realization,and thus came into being.In the process of putting it into practice,the contradictions between the purpose of entity and objective reality are bound to arise,and in the process of discovering,analyzing and solving these contradictions,the practical methods of realizing the whole-process people's democracy are created,which are reflected in the whole process of the relationship between the Party leadership and the people,the whole process of democratic decision-making and democratic governance,and the whole process of selection,management and supervision of leading cadres,thus making the concept of whole-process people's democracy gradually realized through practice.