民主作为人类政治文明的宝贵财富,在社会主义制度诞生以前,始终为统治阶级少数人所享有,因而从无产阶级领导的革命斗争一开始,民主就成为唤起和鼓舞广大人民同旧制度进行斗争的一面旗帜。早在1848年,马克思和恩格斯在《共产党宣言》中就把“争得民主”作为“工人革命第一步”的 Democracy, as a valuable asset of human political civilization, was always enjoyed by the ruling class minority until the birth of the socialist system. From the very beginning of the revolutionary struggle led by the proletariat, democracy became a means of arousing and encouraging the broad masses of people in their struggle against the old system A banner. As early as 1848, Marx and Engels regarded “winning democracy” as the “first step of the worker’s revolution” in the “Communist Manifesto”