The inherent limitations of Western democratic theory make it impossible to deal with the relationship among democratic principles, democratic spirit and democratic ability, and thus make it fall into a deadlock. The fragmented democratic political practice of the bourgeoisie has caused the Western-style democratic principles to be alienated as well. The whole-process people’s democracy is a great innovation in the history of the development of the CPC’s democratic theory, and also a new achievement on the road to human democracy. From the perspective of the theoretical composition, under the guidance of the materialistic dialectics, the whole-process people’s democracy has not attended one thing and lost another, but has realized the aggregation of the three elements of the whole-process principle, people-oriented spirit and democratic ability; from the perspective of manifestation form, the whole-process people’s democracy has realized the implementation of the principle of the whole process in all areas of the political system, the all-round guidance of the people-oriented spirit in the operation of society, and the cultivation of democratic ability in the entire chain of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the free and all-round development of mankind.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Zheng Yifan

From:Studies on Marxism.2022.No.10.