近年来,陈独秀晚年在书信中表达的民主观备受学界的关注,且被有些学者不适当地夸张。事实上,影响陈独秀民主观形成的思想资源,既有当时西方一些“苏联之友”的作品,更有托洛茨基的几部重要著作,尤其是他的《被背叛的革命》一书。挖掘陈独秀晚年民主观生成的思想资源,并不排除陈氏本人对此所作的思考与辨析,更不否认陈独秀在全球自由主义与民主主义衰落时期的至尊地位。 In recent years, the democratic outlook Chen Duxiu expressed in his later years has drawn the attention of the academic circles and has been unduly exaggerated by some scholars. In fact, the ideological resources that influenced Chen Duxiu’s formation of democratization include not only the works of the “friends of the Soviet Union” in the West but also several important books by Trotsky, especially his book “Betrayed Revolution.” Excavating Chen Duxiu’s ideological resources generated in his later years does not rule out Chen’s thinking and discrimination on this issue, nor does he deny Chen Duxiu’s supremacy in the decline of global liberalism and democratization.