The Research On The Zhou Enlai’s Practice And Ideology Of Democracy And Legal System Work

Comrade Zhou Enlai is an important member of the Party’s first generation of central leadership with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core,and one of the main leaders of the Party and the country.In the long years of the new democratic revolution and socialist construction,Zhou Enlai has expounded a lot on the people’s democracy and legal system,accumulated rich practical experience in the work of democracy and legal system,and made important contributions to promoting the construction of the people’s democracy and legal system in China.During the period of the New Democratic Revolution,Zhou Enlai carried out many practices in the field of democracy and legal system: during the Great Revolution,Zhou Enlai presided over the movement to recover the right to education,let the missionary schools be managed by the Chinese themselves,and explored the realization of people’s autonomy;During the Agrarian Revolution,Zhou Enlai drafted the Outline of the Chinese Soviet Constitution,which corrected the serious mistakes of the expansion of the elimination of counter-revolutionaries in the Soviet region;During the Anti-Japanese War,Zhou Enlai made great efforts to promote the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front;During the War of Liberation,Zhou Enlai strived to achieve political democratization,not only negotiated many times for the formation of a democratic coalition government,but also made efforts to safeguard the basic rights of democrats.During the socialist transformation period,Zhou Enlai guided a series of legislative activities and legal implementation activities.During the period of building socialism in an all-round way,Zhou Enlai led the solution of the border problem and participated in the establishment of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.During the Cultural Revolution,Zhou Enlai worked hard to protect the Party’s leading cadres,democrats and intellectuals,maintain normal social order,and reduce the losses caused by the Cultural Revolution.Based on these rich practices,Zhou Enlai formed his unique thought of democracy and legal system thought.During the period of the New Democratic Revolution,Zhou Enlai formed some opinions on the issue of revolutionary democracy and the legal system: during the Great Revolution,he stressed the need to realize the civil rights of the majority of people,put forward the view that the army is fighting for the people,and pointed out that the women’s movement is a class rather than a gender revolution;During the Agrarian Revolution,he proposed to oppose extreme democracy and believed that democracy within the Party and the army should also follow disciplines and procedures.After Japan launched the war of aggression against China,he advocated resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty;During the Anti-Japanese War,Zhou Enlai formed a democratic thought about the anti-Japanese national united front and defined the scope of the united front;During the War of Liberation,Zhou Enlai put forward some ideas to promote the realization of political democratization.He advocated by the "common program and constitutional government to achieve political democratization",and believed that matters related to the country and the people should be made public.During the period of socialist transformation,he formed scientific thoughts of legislation,justice and law-abiding.During the period of building socialism in an all-round way,he put forward some proposals to promote the improvement of democratic system.He stressed that while upholding dictatorship,we should expand democracy,adhere to concentration on the basis of democracy,and pay attention to respecting and protecting the rights and freedoms of ethnic minorities.Zhou Enlai’s thought of democracy and legal system has a high historical position.It not only explains and develops Mao Zedong’s thought of democracy and legal system,but also affects the democratic and legal thought of later generations of Communists.His thoughts also enlighten the construction of democracy and the rule of law today,that is,adhere to the development of a higher level of democracy,adhere to promoting the construction of a country ruled by law,and adhere to the synergy between democracy and the rule of law.