Historical Ontology and the Resilience of Politics:Historical Politics Study of the Role of Politics
The Chinese people's understanding of the role of politics is mainly relative to the economy,and widespread saying is that the economic base determines the superstructure,and the superstructure has a counterproductive effect;however,the CPC,based on its own historical experience,puts forward the proposition of"and even the decisive role",which is different from the meaning of"counterproductive effect".This shows that the Chinese have broken through the traditional linear thinking of political-economic relations.Studying the role of politics from the"historical ontology"of historical-political science,we conclude:(1)Politics is a"dependent variable"in the social history of institutional change in Europe and the United States,although there are occasional phenomena of state autonomy in history;(2)Politics is an independent variable in a country with a political history such as China;(3)"Political elasticity"is a universal phenomenon,a finding that represents a major challenge to the conventional way of thinking,and that attempts to solve life's problems once and for all by political change are inconsistent with general historical experience;(4)Political resilience stems from the fact that politics is a"container of time"for natural evolution that has been practiced for hundreds of generations;(5)The multilayered and non-linear nature of political-economic relations and the"paradox of organization"cannot be ignored,and that it is a major issue that is difficult to avoid in the modernization of the country's governance.