The Traditional Thought Of The People And The Modern Democratic Ideas A Comparative Study

Political development of any country can not be divorced from its cultural traditions. Traditional theories of traditional Chinese political thought as a major component of modern democracy in China has great significance for reference. Traditional people-based advocated "people are the foundation", that the public is the fundamental state. In the policy process, the rulers should be "doing for the people". We need to respect the people, love the people, believe and obey the people, rich people. If we ignore the people, they would be forced to rebel. Traditional people-based was an important component of our traditional part, and had played an important role in the ancient community. However, fundamentally, it was a tool for the dominator. So we should not ignore its negative effects. Now in the process of building a modern democratic society, we have to choose how to deal with it. Can we inherit or abandon it? To solve this problem, we must understand the substance of it undoubtedly, trace the course of its development, compare "do for the people" and "serve for the people", distinguish the subjects of them, contrast their essential meaning of "the people", differentiate their social background and their social roles, and find out the difference of the relationship with the rulers.In addition, during the process of modern democracy-building, economic growth appears inconsistent with democracy and other political and social issues. So we must be clear the difference between "the people" and "people". We must understand the relations between the traditional thought of the people and the "people-oriented "of the scientific concept of development fully. We must draw on the traditional thought of the people of the useful part, to its dregs. Combining the background of the times, "people first" scientific development concept has inherited the traditional thought of the people on bases, and has absorbed the outstanding achievements of modern democratic thinking. It recognizes the dominant position of people in the historical subject, thinking that people should enjoy a wide range of political participation. In social governance, it insists that we should mainly to legal norms, moral principles binding complementary. In the ruling idea, we should change people calling the shots into the officer serving the public. In the policy process, the idea of "Wealth with the people" changes into people's livelihood. Only if we do this, can we change the traditional thought of the people to achieve its modern development, and then complete localization of democratic ideas.