Author: Wang Cheng (Associate Professor, School of Marxism, Xi'an University of Foreign Chinese).
** The general secretary stressed: "Democracy is the common value of all mankind and an important concept that the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people have always adhered to. "Whole-process people's democracy is the development direction of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, and people's nature is the first attribute of whole-process people's democracy, highlighting the important position of the people in the democratic process.
Essentialism: A new interpretation of the people's ownership.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx solemnly declared that "the first step of the workers' revolution is to raise the proletariat to the ruling class and win democracy". Socialist democracy is a true democracy, and its essence is that the people are the masters of the country. The criterion for evaluating the quality of a form of democracy is not discourse and political slogans, but whether it can truly reflect the will of the people.
While inheriting the Marxist idea of democracy, exploring how to take China's democratic road is an important topic that the Communist Party of China has always paid attention to. In particular, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people's democratic state system led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants, the political system of the people's congress system, the cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and the system of grassroots mass autonomy were implemented.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary has profoundly grasped the major thesis that "without democracy, there will be no socialism, there will be no socialist modernization, and there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", which has provided a fundamental guide for the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. In November 2019, when General Secretary ** inspected the grassroots legislative contact point of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Hongqiao Street, Shanghai, he first proposed that people's democracy is a whole-process democracy. In July 2021, at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China clearly emphasized the need to "develop whole-process people's democracy". In October 2021, at the work conference of the National People's Congress, the general secretary gave a comprehensive and systematic explanation of the whole process of people's democracy. In November 2021, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) passed the third historical resolution, which listed "developing whole-process people's democracy" as an important part of the "Ten Clear". The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clearly put forward the need to "develop whole-process people's democracy and ensure that the people are the masters of the country", and made comprehensive arrangements. It can be seen from this that whole-process people's democracy is a brand-new form of socialist democracy in the new era, which clearly demonstrates our party's party spirit and principle of putting the people in the highest position in its heart and its firm stand of holding high the people's banner and realizing that the people are the masters of the country.
Juche: to achieve the broadest possible political participation.
The relationship between subject and object is an important category of Marxism. Marx pointed out: "Thought cannot realize anything at all, and in order to realize thought, it is necessary to have people who use the power of practice." "As the main body of social practice, human beings should give full play to their subjective initiative and actively transform the objective world. Accordingly, the formation and development of democratic politics is inseparable from people's social practice, and political participation is a necessary form of democracy. The whole-process people's democracy under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has successfully achieved the most extensive political participation in history, and has incomparable superiority.
From the perspective of comparative studies, Western democratic theories define democracy in terms of a specific form of political participation, that is, competitive elections, which narrows the connotation and extension of "the people". In a particular cycle of political life, the rulers who hold power are the spokesmen of all kinds of capital and professional politicians, the "people" are replaced by the "voters", and the "democracy" is alienated into the "money masters". In some countries, people only have the right to vote but not the right to participate broadly, and people are awakened only when they vote and go into hibernation after voting.
In contrast, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has maintained its strategic focus in the complex domestic and international environment with a high sense of historical responsibility, and has deepened various political reforms with the political courage of a strong man. Whether it is top-level design, policy formulation or specific measures, it takes "the people" as the logical origin, and takes the people's high dissatisfaction, dissatisfaction, and agreement as the highest standard of the inspection work, and gradually completes the comprehensive transcendence of the Western "capital logic", and truly achieves that the people are always present no matter when and where. For example, the annual National People's Congress and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National People's Congress (NPC) The whole-process people's democracy has effectively realized the unity of process democracy and democracy of results, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, and people's democracy and the will of the state.
Utility: Promoting people's happiness and human progress.
Today's world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, the international situation is turbulent, and the development of human history has entered a new turning point. Many countries and regions face "democratic poverty" and "human rights deficits". Socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics has once again shown that high-quality democracy is manifested internally in the ownership of the country by its own people, and externally in the form of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation among all countries in the world.
First of all, whole-process people's democracy is an inevitable choice to promote people's happiness. A happy life for the people is the greatest human right. The people are both the starting point and the ultimate goal of socialist democracy. Whole-process people's democracy is integrated into the economic, political, cultural, social, ecological and other fields, and contributes to the improvement of Chinese modernization in a social atmosphere in which development is for the people, development depends on the people, and the fruits of development are shared by the people. The tremendous leap in the democratic process has been accompanied by a significant increase in the people's sense of gain, happiness and security, and the development of the country and the happiness of the people have promoted and complemented each other.
Second, whole-process people's democracy is China's "plan" for promoting human progress. The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always been committed to the responsibility of the world, not only for the happiness of the people and the rejuvenation of the nation, but also for the progress of mankind and the common good of the world. At the same time, the vast number of developing countries share a similar historical situation with China, face common development tasks, and shoulder the same development problems. Whole-process people's democracy negates the uniqueness and exclusivity of the Western democratic paradigm, demonstrates the vigorous vitality of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and will greatly expand the path choices for developing countries to realize democracy, which is of global exemplary significance.
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