A Comparative Study Of Marx's And Rousseau's Democratic Thoughts

Rousseau's and Marx's democratic thoughts occupy an important position in the history of human political philosophy.Rousseau's theory of people's sovereignty can be said to be the axiom of the foundation of modern democratic political theory,legal theory and democratic system construction,bringing human civilization into A new era guided by the principles of democratic political theory.With the development of the times,Marx's democratic thought has its unique contribution to the development of democratic theory.It has a higher democratic ideal and democratic pursuit that transcends capitalist democracy.It is also the theoretical cornerstone of socialist democratic political construction with Chinese characteristics.For a long time,the academic circles have carried out extremely rich and in-depth research on the political philosophy of the two,especially the comparative study of the two democratic ideas,which has also become the focus of people's attention.On the one hand,when scholars make a comparative study of Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts,they usually select one or part of the viewpoints as the main content of the discussion,so that the two democratic ideas are more fragmented and scattered.Therefore,the author mainly conducts a longitudinal and horizontal comparative study of Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts,and verifies the logical relationship between the two from the whole and objective,and uses historical materialism and materialist dialectics as the epistemology to deeply understand the relationship between democracy and thought and democratic development.And methodology,which shows that the development of democracy has a vertical reality relationship,and on this basis,discusses the historical inheritance of the comparison between Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts.On the other hand,it can be seen from the study of most of the literature works that some scholars usually compare and expound Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts with two logical relationships: one is to inherit the relationship between origins and the other is to innovate beyond relations.Therefore,Marx and Rousseau must have a certain historical inheritance in the development of politicalphilosophy,and democracy has different developments in various eras,which means that there are differences and innovations in the times.Through the study of the democratic thoughts of the two,the core connotation of democratic thought is mainly the improvement of the keynote of the people's sovereignty and the constant pursuit of equality and freedom.This is the enrichment of the socialist democratic connotation with Chinese characteristics and the realization of the ultimate goal of socialism.It also has important significance.The thesis is divided into an introduction and four chapters.The introduction mainly writes the background and significance of the topic,the research status,research ideas,methods and innovations of the topic at home and abroad.The first chapter discusses the historical situation of Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts.The second chapter discusses the historical inheritance of Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts.Mainly on the premise of Marx and Rousseau's understanding of the root cause of social inequality-private system,expounding the historical experience of the "exoticism" and the national outlook of the two,and then discussing Marx's right on the people's sovereignty and equality thoughts generated by the two.The historical inheritance of Rousseau's democratic thoughts;the third chapter is the time difference between Marx and Rousseau's democratic thoughts,mainly about the time difference between Marx and Rousseau's ideological connotation,democratic subject and practice,and the path of human freedom and liberation;The fourth chapter is the enlightenment of the comparative study of Marx's and Rousseau's democratic thoughts on the development of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics.The main content is to enrich the connotation of socialist democratic thought with Chinese characteristics from the comparison of the two people's sovereignty ideas;to understand the new era,China The value pursuit of the development of socialist democracy in all aspects,that is,the practice path of all sides of human freedom and all-round development.