Comparative Study On Marx And Dewey’s Democratic Thought

Democracy is people’s pursuit of a goal of life. Western modern democratic thought is the mainstream of social democracy, but with the development of western modern democracy, its false and deceptive obviously revealed gradually, according to the situation, a great proletarian revolutionist master Marx and pragmatism in the United States Dewey proposed for the reconstruction of modern democracy. Because Marx and Dewey’s democratic thought is in the common criticism put forward under the background of modern democracy, so Marx and Dewey’s democratic thought there are similarities, its main performance is: the common criticism of modern democracy, promote democratic transition, mutual recognition of democratic education, emphasize democratic education together. But because of the age in which they have a large gap, so the foothold of democratic reform is different, the "democracy". Marx mainly from the perspective of democracy is a political system for democratic reform and build their own ideological system, its main performance is:first, Marx advanced by democratic socialist democracy; Second, Marx’s thought of democracy is a kind of national system; Third, Marx’s democratic goal is to realize the human liberation, the realization of communism. Fourth, Marx’s thought of democracy path is a revolution of the proletariat. And Dewey mainly from democracy is a way of life this Angle to build your own democratic thought system, the political democracy, expand to the general areas of life, its main performance for the first, Dewey by democracy is still a capitalist democracy; Second, Dewey argues that democracy is a common way of life; Third, Dewey’s democratic goal is through the establishment of "democratic community" to realize the rights of "new people"; Fourth, the path of Dewey think democracy is democracy education. This article through to the place of the thoughts of Marx and Dewey democracy and comparison, and then to Marx and Dewey’s democratic thought form basic cognitive, clarify both democracy and comparison of the construction of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics.