This article is not to elaborate the general theory of democracy,but rather a clarification and explication of a few points in relation to the studies on democracy.First,politics of democracy is not the only form of political civilization.The symbol of political civilization is the state,and autocratic politics and democratic politics are both manifestations of political civilization.The value of democracy is not a universal one,and democratic republic a state form that only emerged in modern times.Second,we cannot say that'democracy is a good thing'in an abstract way.The evaluation of democra...