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The basic value of socialist theory and practice is the economic equality and political democracy based on it. Communists regarding achieving socialism and communism as their ideas consider democracy as an essential political aspiration. In Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels put forward: “We have seen that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy” (Marx and Engels 1972, p. 272). The basic value pursuit of the CPC also is the social liberation and people’s democracy. After the CPC was founded, through the long-term struggle of the Revolution, Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Liberation War, the People’s Republic of China was founded. After the founding of New China, the CPC obtained the long-term ruling position and began to explore the construction of socialist democratic politics.
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Fang, N. (2015). Democratic Political Construction in Contemporary China. In: China’s Democracy Path. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47343-6_3
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