The Eighth Party Congress Of Inner-party Democracy And Its Era Value

Inner-party democracy is the life of the party. It is an important guarantee of enhancing the party's innovation vigor and consolidating the party's unity. The 8th National Congress of the CPC was the first national congress after the CPC became the ruling party and it played an important role in carrying forward in the history of CPC's construction. The 8th National Congress of the CPC developed the theory of inner-party democracy and the institution of inner-party democracy. It was of great significance for the CPC s inner-party democracy construction at that time and had profound inspiration for the CPC s inner-party democracy development at present. The 8th National Congress of the CPC is a significant milestone in the history of the CPC's construction.The paper, which starts from the background of the development of inner-party democracy on the 8th National Congress of the CPC, bases on Marx's, Engels's, and Lenin's proletarian inner-party democratic theory as well as the CPC s inner-party democratic theory, summarizes the 8th National Congress of the CPC's contribution to inner-party democracy and reveals the indelible time value of the 8th National Congress of the CPC. This paper can be divided into three parts and the following are the specific contents.The first part analyzes the background of the development of inner-party democracy on the 8th National Congress of the CPC from the perspective of domestic and international aspects and demonstrates the importance and necessity of the development of inner-party democracy on the 8th National Congress of the CPC.The second part is based on Marx's, Engels's, Lenin's and the CPC's inner-party democratic theory. It systematically illustrates the 8th National Congress of the CPC's contribution to inner-party democracy and analyzes the shortcomings of the 8th National Congress of the CPC on the theory construction of inner-party democracy and the institution construction of inner-party democracy. The contribution of the 8th National Congress of CPC to inner-party democracy is mainly manifested in two aspects:the theoretical innovation of inner party democracy and the institutional innovation of inner-party democracy. From the prospective-view of theoretical innovation, it develops the theory of the party's democratic centralism, puts forward the theory of overall supervision, deepens the understanding of the democratic rights of party members and enriches the theory of the party's mass line. From the prospective-view of institutional innovation, it stresses the system of the party's collective leadership, implements the system of permanent party congress, reforms the system of inner-party democratic elections, and brews-considers abolishing the system of the leadership positions of life.The third part demonstrates the important significance of developing inner-party democracy to the CPC s construction, the Chinese socialist construction undertaking as well as the international communist movement and summarizes the new ideas of developing inner-party democracy which are taking theoretical construction as the foundation, taking institutional construction as the key and taking innovative spirit as the guide on the 8th National Congress of CPC. It mainly puts forward that we must take the history as a mirror, inherit and carry forward the democratic spirit and innovative spirit of the 8th National Congress of CPC, overcome its historical limitations, actively develop inner-party democracy to guarantee the implement of the CPC's political route, firmly oppose the cult of personality, continue to expand the pilot work of the system of permanent party congress and implement all kinds of systems on inner-party democracy. It is the contemporary value of the 8th National Congress of CPC.