Research About Early Chinese Marxist Understanding Of Democracy

The pursuit of democracy as one of the engines of modern Chinese history. Since knocking off from Western powers, China will inevitably involved in the process specified in the history of Marx’s transformation into the world’s history. To salvation mission of the modern Chinese intellectual elite want cited Western democracy for China’s modernization is open, but still not essentials. Gein pursuit of democracy for China to seek political modernization epitomizes bound associated with the overall progress of China’s modernization. China ’s unique social structure has become a key factor restricting norms and democratic forms and Trends.As democracy suitors,thinkers, and practitioners to tell, early Chinese Marxist predecessors opened up " to learn from the West," on and " oppose autocracy " Two for the great care. They continue to introduce Western thought resources, such as the Confucian tradition of criticizing Gangchanglunli while advocating "independence of personality" in an attempt to push China to take a similar path of democracy in Western countries.However, unrest, making this pin their hopes on " personal awakening," the road to democracy continues to suffer setbacks, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, who began to realize the inevitable choice for the general pattern and experience of Western democracy is not China’s modernization, turn to surpass the West the new ideology for social change open. Marxism from the West to the West but beyond attitude into their field of vision, and gaining attention. On the one hand, China early Marxist democracy is the basis for confirming the inevitable choice of China’s modernization,the inherited and continued the previous general understanding of democracy, that democracy must include the people’s sovereignty, equality and other personal content;On the other hand, convinced of Marxism, making them focus on the perspective from outside that "personal" social political and economic order and look at the problem to achieve democracy. They put "democracy" is equivalent to "bourgeois democracy" on them as human history a special stage dominated by bourgeois regime and set the established political and economic order. Among this order, the majority should have the right of civilians not implemented, is a "fake democracy." So they turned to the pursuit of a distinct "personal awakening" democratic evolution path represented by the endogenous nature, hopes rapidly changing external political and economic order to establish a "truly democratic" revolution means. Socialism and Democracy has become one of the two sides can not be separated even for a moment.As the transition to socialism "dictatorship of the proletariat" and thus obtain the historical legitimacy. This democratic path to obtain, making China the democratic thinking of the early Marxist show three distinct characteristics: First, "Equality" as the primary value of democracy, Western democracies are focused on "free" ranks second in value gradually; Second, how to make ordinary people can fully enjoy democratic rights, democracy and the responsibility to fulfill the exercise of democratic rights become the core concern for democracy; Third, the establishment of modern politics and foreign all obstacles need for democratic development, "power" to compete. Democratic thinking of early Chinese Marxist possess content and characteristics, and demonstrated the value of care, not only has a rich content of the times, the ongoing modernization of China to provide more important ideological factors, China’s democratic development the enduring ideological resources.