Abstract: Mao Zedong had always attached great importance to socialist democratic politics in the process of constructing socialist modernization.He founded the theory of people’s democratic dictatorship,proposed to correctly distinguish two antinomies of different nature,initiated people to be the masters of their own,and established a political strategy for the Communist Party to supervise mutually with other Parties and exist long together.However,he also made some mistakes in this process.Deng Xiaoping succeeded Mao’s democratic political ideology and further developed socialist democratic politics.A socialist,modern country with clear and bright politics and people’s democracy is being formed.

Key words: democratic politics, construction, exploration, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping