《译心向党》第六期——论人民民主专政（上）
《论人民民主专政》是毛泽东在1949年6月30日为纪念中国共产党成立28周年撰写。1960年收入人民出版社出版的《毛泽东选集》第四卷。2011年收入中央文献出版社出版的《建党以来重要文献选编》第二十六册。文章通过纪念中国共产党的成长发展，指出人类进步的远景问题；阐述了中国共产党28年的发展历史，指出了中国人民胜利的主要的基本的经验；有针对性地回答了一些人头脑中的糊涂思想。进一步论述了人民、人民民主专政的概念。
• 我们党走过二十八年了，大家知道，不是和平地走过的，而是在困难的环境中走过的，我们要和国内外党内外的敌人作战。谢谢马克思、恩格斯、列宁和斯大林，他们给了我们以武器。这武器不是机关枪，而是马克思列宁主义。
• As everyone knows, our Party passed through these twenty-eight years not in peace but amid hardships, for we had to fight enemies, both foreign and domestic, both inside and outside the Party. We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.
• 自从一八四〇年鸦片战争失败那时起，先进的中国人，经过千辛万苦，向西方国家寻找真理。洪秀全、康有为、严复和孙中山，代表了在中国共产党出世以前向西方寻找真理的一派人物。那时，求进步的中国人，只要是西方的新道理，什么书也看。向日本、英国、美国、法国、德国派遣留学生之多，达到了惊人的程度。国内废科举，兴学校，好像雨后春笋，努力学习西方。我自己在青年时期，学的也是这些东西。这些是西方资产阶级民主主义的文化，即所谓新学，包括那时的社会学说和自然科学，和中国封建主义的文化即所谓旧学是对立的。学了这些新学的人们，在很长的时期内产生了一种信心，认为这些很可以救中国，除了旧学派，新学派自己表示怀疑的很少。
• From the time of China’s defeat in the Opium war of 1840, Chinese progressives went through untold hardships in their quest for truth from the Western countries. Hung Hsiu-chuan, Kang Yu-wei, Yen Fu and Sun-Yat-sen were representative of those who had looked to the West for truth before the Communist Party of China was born. Chinese who then sought progress would read any book containing the new knowledge from the West. The number of students sent to Japan, Britain, the United States, France and Germany was amazing. At home, the imperial examinations were abolished and modern schools sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain; every effort was made to learn from the West. In my youth, I too engaged in such studies. They represented the culture of Western bourgeois democracy, including the social theories and natural sciences of that period, and they were called “the new learning” in contrast to Chinese feudal culture, which was called “the old learning”. For quite a long time, those who had acquired the new leaning felt confident that it would save China, and very few of them had any doubts on this score，as the adherents of the old learning had.
