ON NEW DEMOCRACY

This chapter focuses on the new democracy of China. For many years, communists have struggled for a cultural revolution as well as for a political and economic revolution, and the aim is to build a new society and a new state for the Chinese nation. That new society and new state will have not only a new politics and a new economy but a new culture. Any given culture is a reflection of the politics and economics of a given society, and the former in turn has a tremendous influence and effect upon the latter. In the course of its history, the Chinese revolution must go through two stages, first, the democratic revolution, and second, the socialist revolution, and by their very nature they are two different revolutionary processes. Here democracy does not belong to the old category — it is not the old democracy, but belongs to the new category — it is new democracy. It can thus be affirmed that China's new politics are the politics of new democracy, China's new economy is the economy of new democracy, and that China's new culture is the culture of new democracy.