Marx And Engels’ Political Authority Thought

The thought of political authority is the inevitable product of the development of Marxist historical materialism.From the ancient Greek period to the feudal period to the Enlightenment period and then to the capitalist period,the core of authority from nature to religion to humanistic thought and then to the state is in a state of constant change.Marx and Engels reasonably sublated the predecessors’ thoughts,combined with the need for authority of joint activities in the industrial revolution,the authoritative role of class leadership in the European social movement and the influence of Bakunin’s anarchism,put forward the scientific political authority thought.Marx and Engels’ Thoughts on political authority are rich in content.From the essence of political authority,it is clear that political authority is the authority of political party,and the realization of its essence requires the joint construction of leadership and obedience.In the internal contradiction of political authority,we should not only realize the authority of the central government,but also respect the people’s self-government needs,and have the centralized system of the government and guarantee the democracy of the people.The characteristics of political authority have also gradually developed into obedience,legitimacy,class and history.Class rule should guide the people to obey the authority of the subject in the process of authority construction,and the authority decision should be legal and reasonable.Every period of political authority has its own class character.Political authority is shown as the disappearance of revolution and political authority in the law of historical development.Only by defining the internal relations and characteristics of political authority can political authority have its unique social function,and play an important role in maintaining the people’s main position,leading the construction of political class and consolidating the proletarian regime.In addition,Marx and Engels pay more attention to the restriction and restriction of power in order to realize the scientificity of political authority,and give people supervision power by the realization of universal election power,and control the pursuit of power by public officials by the realization of equal pay for equal work.In the course of the party’s 100 years of development,Marx and Engels’ political authority thought has influenced the party’s political authority construction in the period of revolutionary construction,reform and opening up,and socialist development.Successive leaders have better introduced the political authority thought into China’s specific practice.In the new era and new background,political authority thought has important guiding value in theory and practice.In theory,it has developed the theory of the construction of the Communist Party of China,enriched the theory of people’s democratic dictatorship,and improved the thought of clean government;in practice,it has implemented the thought of "two maintenance",maintained the unity of multi-ethnic countries,and promoted the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity.