“人民民主专政”和“社会主义民主”是中学思想政治课教学的重点和难点,特别是在高三思想政治课教学中应努力突出和突破。在教学中,不少教师做了有益的探索。笔者认为,要正确理解“人民民主专政”和“社会主义民主”,须从两个角度进行分析,即从广义、狭义去理解。 “人民民主专政”是我国的国体,即我们国家的阶级性质。从广义上讲,这里的“专政”就是广大人民掌握和行使国家权力,实行为广大人民根本利益服务的政冶统治。民主则是这种政治统治实现的形式,这样,人民便是民主和专政的主体,表明“人民民主”和“人民专政”的辩证统一,亦即对绝大多数人实行最广泛的民主 The “people’s democratic dictatorship” and “socialist democracy” are the key and difficult points in the teaching of ideological and political courses in middle schools, especially in the third year of ideological and political teaching, efforts should be made to highlight and break through. In teaching, many teachers did a useful exploration. The author believes that to correctly understand the “people’s democratic dictatorship” and “socialist democracy”, we must analyze from two angles, that is, from a broad and narrow sense. The “people’s democratic dictatorship” is the country’s state, the class nature of our country. Broadly speaking, the “dictatorship” here is that the broad masses of the people grasp and exercise state power and implement the rule of governance that serves the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. Democracy is the form of realization of such political rule. In this way, the people are the main body of democracy and dictatorship, demonstrating the dialectical unity of “people’s democracy” and “people’s dictatorship,” that is, implementing the most extensive democracy for the vast majority of people.