党的民主集中制原则从其产生、发展到日臻完善的过程，是一个在理论与实践中反复锤炼的过程，也是一个多世纪共产主义运动积累宝贵经验不断发展的过程。马克思、恩格斯关于民主集中制的基本思想，是在辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的科学世界观的认识论和方法论的基础上建立... The process of the Party’s principle of democratic centralism, from its birth and development to its perfection, is a process repeatedly tempered in theory and practice and a process in which the communist movement has accumulated valuable experience and developed over more than a century. Marx and Engels’ basic thinking on democratic centralism is based on the epistemology and methodology of the scientific world outlook of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.