英文摘要 |
The mature political thought of Sun Yat-sen was simultaneously committed to democratic principles and to a vanguardist vision of revolution that influenced his vision of a future constitutional order. Although Sun's political writings and speeches were often ambiguous and self-contradictory, this article focuses on the main issues of concern to Sun in the 1910s and 1920s. Sun believed in vanguardism before the Guomindang was reorganized as a Leninist party, and he based his vanguardism on a coherent epistemology. From the point of view of liberal democracy, it seems popular sovereignty and vanguardism are in tension. However, illiberal democracy-preserving popular sovereignty while emphasizing strong leadership-was widely attractive to cosmopolitan intellectuals in the early twentieth century, and it was logically based on an optimistic teleology that postulated the world-historical development of democracy. |