罗莎卢森堡的民主思想与当代中国的民主建设-InternationaleRosa.DOCVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Rosa Luxemburg’s Thought of Democracy and the Construction of Democracy in Present China Wang Xinyan Liang Yulan (Wuhan University, Rosa Luxemburg, as a great Proletarian revolutionist and outstanding Marxist theorist in the history of international communist movement, has very rich and profound thought of democracy. Because of all sorts of particular historical reasons, Rosa Luxemburg’s thought of democracy has never got due attention and correct evaluation in Chinese academic circles. Today, proper understanding and evaluating her thought of democracy are extremely significant to advance the construction of democracy in present China. Ⅰ.The basic contents of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought of democracy Rosa Luxemburg’s thought of democracy mainly includes two aspects. The first one is her thought of democracy about the organizing principle of the Proletarian Party, that is, the thought about inner-party democracy. On the issue of organizing principle of the Proletarian Party, Rosa Luxemburg didn’t definitely oppose the centralism. However, she strongly opposed the principle of centralism which is advanced by Lenin, for she thought the centralism advocated by Lenin endowed the leading body of the HYPERLINK /party/ \t _blank Party with plenary power of making arbitrary decisions and taking peremptory actions to artificially strengthen its conservatism to a parlous condition. In Rosa Luxemburg’s view, as the organizing principle of the Proletarian Party, the centralism should be a self-centralism. She said, “The centralism in Social Democratic Party is nothing more than a mandatory synthesis of the will of the vanguard of whom having consciousness and in a struggle now among the working class (as opposed to its all groups and members), this is, so to speak, the self-centralism of the proletarian leadership, and the most people’s rule of the proletariat within its own Party organization.” The Selected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg, Vol.Ⅰ,Beijing: People’