Comparative Study Of The Marxism Democratic Theory And The Elite Democrac Theory

Democratic theory is a very important theory which is run through the wholehistory of Western Political Thought. As one of the most important achievements inthe modern political civilization, democracy has become the basic value of civilizedsociety. There are a great variety of democratic theories during the development ofEuropean democratic theory. The point of the paper is exporting the Marxismdemocratic theory and the elite democracy theory and compares them.Marxist theorist understanding of democracy are Rousseau’s people’s sovereigntythought and Hegel’s theory, the relationship between civil society and country utopiansocialism democracy thought and Tocqueville society restricts the right ideas. Marxfrom the pursuit of the freedom of people, through the solution of the capitalistdemocracy, real democracy ideal is put forward. Simply speaking, in the Marxistdemocratic theory point of view, democracy is based on economic equality, publicuniversal participation, person’s full scale free. It is because of the Marxist democratictheory and the classical theory of links to make it drew criticism from the westernelite democracy theory and criticism. Elite western democratic theory on the basis ofelitism, on the basis of the criticism of classical democratic theory emphasizes theelite in the dominant position in the democratic process, aims to explain andreconstruct the western democratic system.This article is trying to comb the two theoretical sources and main contents ofdemocratic theory, focuses on the two theories in the philosophical basis, theoreticalassumptions, democratic subject identity and value orientation, aim to the value of thetwo democratic theory to make objective evaluation, and expounds Marxistdemocratic theory is the important theory significance and reality function for theconstruction of democratic politics in contemporary China.