A Study Of Zhou Enlai’s Thought Of Political Consultation

Zhou Enlai was an active advocate and firm executor of the party’s political consultation work during the period of Chinese revolution and construction.Before the founding of new China,the leaders of the Party Central Committee headed by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai united all democratic parties,non party Democrats and people’s organizations to carry out the patriotic united front movement,adhered to political consultation,united in overthrowing the three mountains and establishing new China.After the founding of new China,Zhou Enlai continued to carry out political consultation by presiding over the people’s Political Consultative Conference,bringing together more powerful fighting forces for the cause of socialism.Zhou Enlai’s political consultation thought inherits and develops Marxist united front theory,party cooperation theory and democratic political theory.It is also rooted in the "harmony" thought,the "people-oriented" idea and the "deliberative" culture of Chinese excellent traditional culture.It has gradually formed and developed in the specific practice of Chinese revolution and construction.It is the crystallization of Chinese and western excellent ideology and culture in China’s specific practice;Zhou Enlai believed that it is very necessary to carry out political consultation with democratic parties and non party democratic personages.The nature of China’s revolution has facilitated our cooperation with democratic parties.China’s objective historical development has determined that our party and democratic parties will coexist for a long time;In the process of political consultation,Zhou Enlai believed that the Communist Party of China must be in an absolute leading position.All democratic parties,non party democratic personages and people’s organizations are important subjects for the Communist Party of China to conduct political consultation;Before and after the founding of new China,the older generation of Chinese Communists,represented by Zhou Enlai,made unremitting efforts to establish the CPPCC.As an organizational form of political consultation between our party and democratic parties,non party Democrats and people’s organizations,the CPPCC promoted the establishment of the Central People’s government and the convening of the people’s Congress,discussed and dealt with major national policies Cooperation within the CPPCC and between political parties and organizations;In political consultations with democratic parties,non party Democrats and people’s organizations,Zhou Enlai not only stressed the need to adhere to the bottom line and principles,but also proposed to make appropriate compromises and concessions at a specific time in order to contribute to the formation of the United Front.Zhou Enlai’s political consultation thought is an important part of the achievements of Marxist democratic political theory in China.It provides an action guide for exploring China’s socialist democratic political construction,has positive significance for consolidating the ruling position of the Communist Party of China and the new people’s political power,and is conducive to upholding and improving the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China,upholding and carrying forward the spirit of socialist consultative democracy with Chinese characteristics Adhering to and giving full play to the CPPCC as an important supporting force of the new political party has important practical implications.