民主制作为一种政治制度是从资产阶级国家开始广泛实行的，通称为西方议会民主。无产阶级在取得政权后也建立了民主制的统治形式，是社会主义民主。我国的人民民主，属于社会主义民主。江泽民同志近来提出的分清社会主义民主与西方议会民主的界限，是我们在政治上保持清醒，坚 Democratization as a political system is widely practiced by bourgeois countries, commonly known as Western parliamentary democracy. The proletariat also established the democratic form of domination after its political power was acquired and was socialist democracy. People’s democracy in our country belongs to socialist democracy. The boundary that Comrade Jiang Zemin proposed recently to distinguish between socialist democracy and Western parliamentary democracy is because we are politically sober-minded and resolute