Mao Zedong's Democratic Thoughts And Political Reform In New Period

Democracy, as one kind of value and ideal which depend on the politician and philosopher to theorize. Political democracy, as the aim of all the nation's political development, depend on the people to perform and accept the execution system design in practice.As the Leader of People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong devoted all his life to the people's democracy enterprise. Mao Zedong's democratic thoughts hold very prominent part in Mao Zedong's complete thoughts. He always insisted combining Marxism-Leninism's basic principle with China revolutionary practice, creatively invited a new path to "achieve the democracy",which was suited for China actual revolution. He gained lots of experience of political power construction in the base in the revolutionary age and contributed to the people's democratic dictatorship theory. After New China founded, the people's democratic dictatorship Republic established, the National People's Congress system and the multi-party cooperation political consultation system which the Communist Party lead had all been established. The regional autonomy for nationalities system was in practice in the national minority inhabit regions. All these politics displayed the socialist democratic politics superiority initially. Certainly, in Mao Zedong's later life,because of the deviation to our country political situations, he made a fault in the democratic issue. While the history is always intriguing and we should not simplify to see Mao Zedong.This article starts from respecting the history, traces the development path of Mao Zedong's thoughts in democracy issue and evaluates his merits objectively. Through inspecting the process of Mao's democracy thoughts, namely the basic clue of people's democratic dictatorship theory development:The populace Republic--worker and peasant democratic republic--people's republic--democratic republic--new democracy Republic--people's democratic dictatorship--people's democratic dictatorship democratization, the legalization, the institution construction, from this kind of logic sequence's evolution, this article restructures the logical vein of the people's democratic idea. And using historical materialism diagnostic method, the article profound holds the essence of people's democracy, democracy at the grassroots level, democratic centralism, deliberative democracy. All these provide the theory background and the ideological level for the political reform in our country at the new time. Also it will be of great theoretical and practical significance for us to face the reality of china, to understand the democracy of socialism with Chinese characteristics correctly, to further deepen the political reform, to build the democratic politics of socialism with Chinese characteristics diligently.