Author(s)

Qian Chen

Corresponding Author

Qian Chen

Abstract

Marxist democratic thought embodies rich connotations: "The human world with transition to democracy" elucidates the inevitable possibility to achieve people's democracy in logic; "The people are endowed with the rights to establish a new state system" indicating that the core of people's democracy is to realize that people should be the masters of the country and the subjectivity of people should be safeguarded. The proletariat is the realistic force to realize human liberation and people's democracy; the abolition of private ownership is the fundamental requirement for the realization of people's essential democracy. The answer to “ why the people’s democracy should be reached” “ what does the people’s democracy mean” and “ how to make people’s democracy be realized “ from Marx is still significant in today’s world, which have both scientific guiding role in construction of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics and in providing theoretical basis for rational cognition of democracy in western countries. Democracy is the ideal state for the development of human political civilization. In a socialist society, democracy means that the people are masters of the country. Throughout China's history, it was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that Chinese became a real society for the general public and the democratic ideal of the people being masters of the country was truly realized. Since the founding of new China in 70, tremendous historical achievements have been achieved in the democratic and political development in our country under the leadership of the CPC. [1] Against the new historical background and on the occasion of the key period to achieve the goal of the “ Two Centenary”, new requirements have been put forward by the general public for democracy, which are to strengthen academic research on the connotation of Marxist democratic thought that should be given full play in guiding role in Marxist democratic thought. Besides, the enhancement of scientific cognition and great confidence of people to socialist democracy is of great importance.

Keywords

People's Democracy; Proletariat; Essential Democracy; Value based Connotation