Chinese official media: "Democracy is a good thing,"

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Democracy is a good thing, which I received in 2005 in an interview with reporters in Hong Kong "Ta Kung Pao" said a word. Many readers have different views, I would like to make here to talk about, how to correctly understand this sentence.

Democracy is a good thing, not say to individual

not in terms of individual people, not some of the officials concerned. It is an insult to the entire country and the nation. The terms of the broad masses of people. Frankly speaking, the self-interest of those officials, democracy is not only not a good thing. or a troublemaker things, even a bad. Imagine that, in a democratic political conditions, the officials elected by citizens to obtain the endorsement and support of the majority; to be subject to the constraints of its powers, he can not do whatever it likes, but also people with equal bargaining. These two points alone, many people will not like. Therefore, not spontaneous functioning democracy, it needs its own people to represent the interests of the people and government officials to promote and practice.

Democracy is a good thing, not say a democracy everything is perfect

It had many inherent shortcomings. Democracy does make citizens took to the streets, holding rallies, which could lead to political instability; under the conditions of democracy, some of the non-democratic relatively simple matters become complicated and cumbersome. thus increasing political and administrative costs; democracy often requires repeated consultations and discussions. often make the decisions that would be made in time, become undecided, thereby reducing administrative efficiency. Democratic political rhetoric will make some swindlers have an opportunity to become a tool to fool the people, and so on. However, mankind has invented and implemented in all the political systems, democracy is a minimum of defects. In other words, relatively speaking, democracy is the best political system in human beings so far.

Democracy is a good thing, that democracy will not solve all the problems of democracy as a safeguard sovereignty in the political system. It is a system of many human beings, mainly regulating people's political life. and should not take the place of other systems to regulate all human life. The limitations inherent in democracy is not a panacea, it is impossible to solve all the problems. But democracy guarantee people's basic human rights and to provide equal opportunity to people, it is a fundamental value of humanity. Democracy is not only a means to solve people's lives, but also human development goals; Is not only a tool to achieve other goals. more compatible inherent in the nature of mankind itself. Even with the best food, the absence of democratic rights, the human personality is incomplete.

Democracy is a good thing, not say there are no a painful cost. Democracy could undermine the rule of law, social and political order led to the temporary loss of control, in a certain period of time or even hinder socio-economic growth; Democracy may also undermine the peace and will create domestic political split. the democratic process may also send a small number of autocrats and dictators political arena. All of these are the realities of life have emerged in humans, and may keep reappearance. Therefore, democracy is sometimes the price is too high, even unbearable. However, fundamentally speaking, this is not democracy itself at fault, but the fault of politicians or statesmen. Some politicians do not understand the democratic objective laws, regardless of social and historical conditions that transcend social and historical development stage, unrealistic to promote democracy, the results will only be counterproductive. Some politicians took their seizure of power as a tool for democracy, "democracy" in the name of demagogy to deceive the people. In them, where democracy is the name of dictatorship is real; Democracy is a front, power is real.

Democracy is a good thing, not say that democracy is unconditional

Cultural and political conditions, disregarding conditions and promote democracy, the state and people would bring disastrous results. Democracy is a historical trend that the world towards democracy is an inevitable trend. However, the timing and pace of democracy, the choice of democracy and system, it is conditional. An ideal democracy, not only with the social and economic system and its level of economic development and geo-politics, the international environment. but with the country's political and cultural traditions, national political figures and the quality of life of its citizens habits are closely linked. How to minimize the political and social costs, maximize the benefits of democracy, politicians and the people need the wisdom. In this sense, democracy is a political art. Promoting democracy, the system requires careful design and superb political skills.

We are building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the modern, strong, and to us that democracy is a good thing. more indispensable. Marxist classical writers said that without democracy, there can be no socialism. President Hu Jintao recently pointed out then that without democracy, there would be no modernization. Of course, we are building the socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics. On one hand, we must fully absorb all outstanding achievements of the political civilization of mankind, including the outstanding achievements of democracy; But on the other hand, we do not copy the political models abroad. Our democracy must also be closely linked to the historical and cultural traditions and social reality. Only in this way, Chinese people can enjoy the sweet fruit of democracy. (The author Yu Keping is deputy director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau)

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