“五四”新文化运动前后,自由主义、精英主义民主先后成为中国民主思潮的旗帜,但在一次次的失败之后,廖仲恺逐渐认识到只有平民主义民主才能真正保障人民主权。为此,他积极致力于指导建设工会、农会的工作,希望由此将广大平民组织成为强有力的政治共同体,并努力探索利用合作社制度为平民主义民主夯实经济上的基础。 Before and after the May Fourth Cultural Movement, liberalism and elitism democracy had become the banner of the Chinese democratic ideological trend. However, after repeated failures, Liao Zhongkai realized that only populist democracy can truly guarantee people’s sovereignty. To this end, he is actively committed to guiding the work of building trade unions and peasant associations. He hopes that this will make the vast majority of civilian organizations a strong political community and strive to explore the use of the cooperative system to lay down the economic foundation for populist democracy.