Mao Zedong's Rule Of Law Concept

There is very arduous and creative law-ruling practice through out Mao Zedong's life. During his study, his law-ruling probing laid hard theory base for law-ruling practice in his revolutionary and building period. Criticizing feudal legal system thoroughly, pursuing democracy and freedom law and forming people's sovereignty law-ruling ideal are his main law-ruling experience in this period. During his leading new-democratic revolution and changing it to socialism, he worked out many laws and decrees which served the revolutionary and building cause. Facts have proved that Mao Zedong is not only the originator of Chinese new-democratic revolution and social revolution, but the originator who suggested ruling new-democratic and social China by law.During the revolutionary practices, Mao Zedong formed unique legal thoughts and law-ruling ideas. Mao Zedong's law-ruling ideas reflected people's understanding law during revolutionary and building period, emphasized that law is class-ruling means, approved that criminal law safeguard the revolutionary order and remold the criminals, paid attention to the constitution consolidating people's political power, established law-ruling aim, believed that people create history and insisted the law-ruling principal of people's sovereignty. Mao Zedong's law-ruling viewpoint ensured the success of the new revolution, promoted Chinese transition from new democracy to socialism and met Chinese revolutionary and building needs. However, Mao Zedong didn't respect laws, especially during the last ten years in his life, he tramped all the laws , including the constitution, that he himself maked out. His mistakes in his last years of his life is a kind of historial phenomenon and the result made by all kinds of historial powers. He waged a class-contending campaign which snuffed out the legally-running idea; China didn't form practical legal condition in the middle of 1950s; His experiences in long term revolution made Mao Zedong not to overcome his defects. These facts led Mao Zedong to people-ruling in the may to chase law-ruling.Mao Zedong's fault of probing on law-ruling tells us that it is a hard and long time to throwaway people-ruling and realize law-ruling in China. The development on law-ruling in China depends on the strength of reform of political system and the depth of the turning of traditional culture. Therefore, with the successful entry of WTO and the implement of the strategy of governing the nation according to law, it is the nearest task for China to construct law-ruling country. However, we must keep peaceful mind, but not hurried, to consider various problems on law-ruling and to make clear the hardness and length of law-ruling.