Gramsci's Political Party Ideology And Its Practical Significance

Gramsci was a socialist thinker later than Lenin, and he was the founder and general secretary of the Communist Party of Italy. With his profound accomplishments of Western culture and the deep understanding of the objective situation of Western Europe socialist movement, he tried to find the revolutionary road which is consistent with the historical reality of the developed capitalist countries in Western Europe in the struggle with opportunism. His thoughts of political party are also generated in the same environment. Gramsci's thoughts of political party are an indispensable component of his political thoughts.Foreign scholars'research to Gramsci studies has focused on his thoughts'influence and significance of the Italian Communist Party after him and the significance of the solution for the problems of today's capitalist society. They have a strong openness and the times nature, but overall, they tend to removing-Marxist research and less addressed the relationship between Gramsci and Marxist. Domestic scholars' research of Gramsci's thoughts of political party has focused on description and less analyzed and utilized. The studies of Gramsci's thoughts of political party are also scattered and included in other aspects' study of Gramsci's theories. On the basis of home and abroad research can see that Gramsci's thoughts of political party to some extent can be a missing of the study of Gramsci's political thoughts. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to make the thoughts of political party which hides in the political thought of Gramsci as a research object separately.This thesis makes Gramsci's thoughts of political party as the research object, searching for theories and ideas related to Gramsci's thoughts of political party from the extremely rich content of Gramsci's political thoughts. Based on Gramsci's major works and the background and the task that Chinese Communist Party faces, this thesis learns useful experiences and enlightenments for the ruling-party building from Gramsci's thoughts of political party. In addition to the specific conclusions, this thesis includes the following four parts:The first part is the introduction, it introduces the significance of the thesis, the research status at home and abroad, the frame structure and the innovation, research methods.The second part is the producing background of Gramsci's thoughts of political party, mainly introduces the times background and ideological environment of Gramsci's thoughts of political party from next seven aspects:the lack of leadership of the proletarian movement in Italy, Gramsci's continuing research and attention of "Southern problem ", the Italian Socialist Party's powerless and inability in the situation in and after World War I, the impact of the Russian revolution and Lenin's ideology, the international and domestic situation when Italian Communist Party generated, the factionalism within the Communist Party of Italy and internal contradictions within the Soviet Communist Party.The third part is the main content of this thesis----the content of Gramsci's thoughts of political party. It includes four aspects:the first part is the meaning of a political party, the formation and disappearance, what is political party and what is the Marxist political party; the second part is the composed elements of a political party and their relationship, and the three elements are the masses, cadres and leaders; the third part is the features of a political party, it includes the unity of nationalism and internationalism of a political party, a political party is a mass political party, the party's organizing principle is "organic " democracy centralized system, the party is a "collective intellectual ", the party is a totality political party and the thought of united front; the fourth part is functions of political parties, the party has the functions of political leadership, balance and arbitration functions, cultural functions and police functions.The fourth part is the practical significance of Gramsci's thoughts of political party, and this part discusses from the following four aspects:first, expand mass base of our Party; second, strengthen ideological education; third, adhere to democratic centralism in the party building; fourth, strengthen cadres team building.