Marx And Engels Republic Democratic Thought And Its Contemporary Values' Research

The Democratic Republic thought of Marx and Engels is an important part of the scientific socialist ideological system and runs through their writings in various periods,but its contents are very scattered and not systematic.The only article devoted to the republic is Engels' s The Spanish Republic in 1873.Most of the domestic and foreign researches about Marx and Engels' thoughts of Democratic Republic focus on the thought of the Social Republic,the systematic researches on their thought of the Democratic Republic are very few.Thus,the study of Marx and Engels' Democratic Republic thought is of important theoretical and practical significance.As a new form of modern state power organization,with the deepening of bourgeois revolution,the Democratic Republic gradually shed its early autocratic privilege and became mature.During this period,Marx and Engels' observation and analysis of the Democratic Republic also changed accordingly.In the early stage,Marx and Engels held completely critical attitudes towards the Democratic Republic.With the development of capitalist economy and various political systems as well as the revolutionary attempts of the Paris Commune,Marx and Engels affirmed the application of republic by the Parisian proletariat on basis of the universal electoral system.After Marx died,Engels inherited and developed Marx's Democratic Republic thought in his later years.The Democratic Republic was born out of bourgeois revolution,but it is not a form of state power organization exclusively for the bourgeoisie,the proletariat can also control it for its own use.Democratic Republic admits the people's sovereignty when the proletariat by the parliament struggles to master in the democratic republic of the state power,the Democratic Republic becomes a special form of the dictatorship of the proletariat.Due to the phasing out of the private ownership of the means of production,the people are masters of the country's rights that guaranteed within the republic lead by the proletariat,people's elected representative organ really represents the interests of their people.The final duel between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie will take place within the Democratic Republic which is the last form of bourgeois governance,and the proletariat will finally achieve victory by establishing the People's Republic or the Social Republic without private ownership and class rule to realize socialism and communism.The research on Democratic Republic thoughts of Marx and Engels can provide theoretical guide for socialist People's Republic replacing western bourgeois republic on the one hand,on the other hand it is also important for Chinese characteristic socialism to develop governance theory and it is helpful to perfect the electoral system in the local people's congress system and the implementation of the communist party of China governing party through people's supervision in an all-round way.