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A Study Of Lenin 's Thought Of Democratic Centralism

Posted on:2016-06-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P P WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330464461900Subject:Basic principles of Marxism
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Lenin’s thought of democratic centralism is an important part of Marx’s thought about the Party,and it is fundamental organizational principle and organizational system for the Chinese Communist Party.Therefore, having in-depth study of Lenin’s democratic centralism thought, understanding and grasping the connotation and essence of democratic centralism, has the important enlightenment to the construction of Chinese Communist Party in the new situation of the Party.In this paper, it begins to research from the analysis of the origin of the thought of Lenin and the process of formation and development of Lenin’s democratic centralism. This article believed that the democratic centralism thoughts of Lenin rooted in the thoughts of Marx and Engels about the organization of the Party; Lenin critically got organizing ideas of the populist, and spoke highly of the populist establish centralized and unified organization thought; Lenin also referred to Luxemburg the importance of democracy within the party thought; Lenin reflected on the loose organizational form and the experience and lessons of the Second International.On the basis of the analysis of origin of Lenin’s thought of democratic centralism and the formation process of foundation, it discussed the main content of the thought, including the minority is subordinate to the majority, the lower level to the higher level; to resolutely safeguard the organization of the Party and the centralized and unified, mainly in adhering to the Party leadership on the thought and concentration the actual work of leadership and the party central core, made strict organization and discipline; attach importance to the development of democracy within the party, mainly displays in to protect the rights of all Party members to participate in affairs, play a good election system, Congress, on behalf of the role of the conference, adhere to the party for freedom of speech, protect the legitimate rights of minority; Adhering to collective leadership and individual responsibility combined, this is because the collective leadership can prevent the power from focusing on the individual, at the same time, practicing division of work marked with individual responsibility to avoid procrastination and no one is responsible for the phenomenon; To uphold and strengthen the supervision within the Party, it manifested that the Party Congress strengthened supervision to the Central Committee, the Central Supervisory Committee and Party organizations at all levels and Party members; it also showed that Party members strengthened supervision to the leaders of the Party and that the lower organizations supervised higher organization. And it set up the special agencies for inspection and supervision.Then, this paper analyzed the forming process of the Lenin’s democratic centralism, practical application, Lenin’s discussion and translation.It reached that the essence of Lenin’s democratic centralism is the "democratic centralism", and is the inevitable choice for the proletarian political Party. It is scientific and reasonable principle and system for organization.This paper think that the democratic centralism of Lenin developed the idea of the Marxism on organization system of the proletarian Party, and laid the foundation for the organization construction and system construction of the Russian leadership of proletariat political Party.It also provides an ideological guide for the construction of China, Vietnam and other countries. But it has limitations, and it is not perfect in the expression of the concept and content; It lacks of procedure, so it is difficult to practice. It lacks of attention for democratic, and it existed Utopian elements about inner-party supervision. Researching on Lenin’s democratic centralism inspired our Party. It showed that we must have a correct understanding of the importance of the democratic centralism, firmly adhere to democratic centralism, strictly define and grasp the connotation and essence of democratic centralism, attach importance to developing the democracy within the party, and enhance basis of democratic centralism. We must strengthen the construction of the organization and the Party’s discipline, and earnestly safeguard the authority of the Party. We must adhere to the collective leadership of the Party, so we can prevent the concentration of power in the individual. At last, we must strengthen the supervision within the party to overcome bureaucracy.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lenin, Democratic Centralism, Realistic Enlightenment
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