在邓小平同志建设有中国特色社会主义理论的指导下,党的十四大明确了我国建立社会主义市场经济体制,十四届三巾全会又作出了建立社会主义市场经济体制若干问题的决定,社会主义市场经济体制的建立正在顺利进展。但是在建立社会主义市场经济体制的新形势下,还要不要坚持民主集中制?对于这个重大的原则问题,目前在干部中还存在着一些模糊认识。概括起来主要有以下五种表现:一是片面地把民主集中制与战争年代或计划经济时期联系在一起,认为在 Under the guidance of Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has made it clear that China has established a socialist market economic system. The 14th Third Plenary Session of the Third Plenary also made a decision on several issues concerning the establishment of a socialist market economic system. The establishment of a socialist market economic system is proceeding smoothly. However, under the new situation of establishing a socialist market economic system, should we not insist on democratic centralism? There are still some vague understandings among cadres about this major issue of principle. To sum up, there are mainly the following five manifestations: First, one-sidedly linking democratic centralism with the war years or the planned economy,