Sun’s Democratic Political Thought And Contemporary Inspiration

Sun yat-sen is the bourgeois revolutionary, statesman, and thinker. He is standingin the front row of time, complying with the trend of the world, conforming to thedemands of the people, and saving people in distress. He is a great pioneer of Chinesedemocratic revolution, the patriots; He held up the fight against imperialism andfeudalism flags. He put forward the three people’s principles revolution programme,who is worthy of a national hero! Under his leading, revolutionary and patriots armedfor uprising, overthrowing monarchy and protecting the result of the revolution, whichmade the "equality and freedom" and "sovereignty in people" democracy republicanideas. His democratic politics view has great significance to the modern democraticpolitical construction of our country. During this period, Sun yat-sen’s democraticpolitical thought gradually formed. Thought guided the revolution practice, at thesame time practice experience made the democracy improved. Sun yat-sen’sdemocratic political thought promoted the development of Chinese democraticpolitics. Although affected by the bourgeois limitations of his own, the civil politicalconstruction had been hampered. However, his contribution still had certain referencesignificance to Chinese democratic political construction in contemporary.The essay is mainly dealing with systematically the forming conditions of SunYat sen’s democratic thought, about which it carries on a systematic analysis andevaluation to conclude with some enlightenment for today’s democratic and politicalconstruction.First of all, international environment has some influence on the formation anddevelopment of Sun Yat-sen’s democratic and political thought, in addition to thespecial national situation of China. Sun Yat-sen, practically changing with the times,referring to western capitalist democracy and politics and above it, formed gradually aset of capitalist class attributive democratic theory system with China’s owncharacteristics.Secondly, the core content of Sun Yat-sen’s democratic thought is to construct afree and democratic nation. People are to realize their own political power by law, andgovernmental officials are people’s servants. People and governmental officials areequal politically. People realize the control of state political power and restriction ofgovernmental power by legislation and supervision. In order to put theory to practice,Sun Yat-sen put forward the establishing strategy of ‘power partition’,‘people’sauthority’,‘public servants’ and ‘five-power constitution’ and ‘separation of powers according to national institution and management’s following aspects such assubject, object, system, scope, procedure, methods etc.Finally, through an overall integration and analysis of Sun Yat-sen’s democraticthought, we can reach the conclusion, that it was Sun Yat-sen that overthrewautocratic monarchy, founded capitalist class democratic republic, and meanwhiledesigned a seemingly perfect constructive blueprint of democracy and politics for ournation. However, influenced by the then special and complicated society environmentand the class limitations, the blueprint didn’t come true. Nevertheless, the variousviews of Sun about national construction still give us deep enlightenment, and havesignificance for our present democratic and political construction.