Research On Mao Zedong Democratic Thought And Its Contemporary Significance

From Chinese and foreign democratic thought, especially Marx Lenin’s democratic thought absorbedthe positive factors, combined with the practice of Chinese democratic revolution, Mao Zedong creativelyformed its own unique concept of democracy. Mao Zedong democratic view is a new concept ofdemocracy, it is not only the embodiment of socialist life and nature, but also embodies the socialist statepower class attribute, namely, the working class and the masses of working people to enjoy the highestdemocracy and dictatorship of the minority, exploiters, the core and essence of it is "people be in power".Ancient Greece is the most early proposed the idea of "democracy", but the essence of democracy isthe slave’s democratic thought. In ancient China, although there are people-oriented policy, butfundamental safeguard the rule of the king. Subsequent western bourgeois despotism in the "social contracttheory" to deny the divine right of kings and feudal, which is a great progress in the notion of democracy.Marx, Engels, Lenin, Marx nationalists, and starting from the basic contradictions revealed capitalism,criticism of the bourgeois democracy one-sided and false. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Marx nationalists, andstarting from the basic contradictions revealed capitalism, criticism of the bourgeois democracy one-sidedand false. The establishment of the people’s democratic system of democracy is the relentless pursuit ofMao Zedong’s life, and it is in the foundation of critically inheriting the idea of democracy in ancient China,western bourgeois democratic thought and Marx Lenin’s democratic thought of Mao Zedong, only in thepractice of China’s democratic revolution, gradually formed its own unique concept of democracy. MaoZedong’s life are for national independence, prosperity, democracy and freedom struggle, in the pursuit oflife, he according to different periods of domestic and international situation, the accord with the situation of China democracy for us to explore, and gradually formed a theoretical system, the democratic system ofthought. Mao Zedong democratic philosophy not only won the national independence, national prosperityfor China at that time, provides the theory reference and guide to action for the construction of socialistdemocracy in China to further promote the development. But also the establishment of the people’sdemocratic dictatorship of the state system, the system of people’s Congress is the basic political system ofregional ethnic autonomy, the leadership of the Communist Party of China’s Political Consultative Systemand a series of safeguarding people’s rights system.Mao Zedong democratic ideas generated from the early embryonic stage, to the development of theland revolution period, to the Anti-Japanese War of the mature, and then to the further development of thewar of liberation, the ultimate deepened on after founding a state, indicate the generation of his democraticideas have a long-term historical development process, and in each period and each development stage hasdifferent character. But generally speaking, characteristic of his democratic thought mainly in four aspects,the nature of democracy has class nature, has a broad meaning of democracy, democratic function has theduality and democratic development stage. In addition, Mao Zedong democratic ideas with obvioushistorical limitations, but in the correct understanding of the "spirit of the people, be in power" to improvethe people’s democratic dictatorship of the political system, democracy in education still has a profoundinfluence on us.