“平民主义”是英文Democracy(德谟克拉西)的一种翻译语。它的最早出现,约在1917年2月此后,一度流行于中国思想界。第一次世界大战后期开始,“互助论”、“泛劳动主义”、俄国“劳农革命”以及资本主义国家的所渭“新”民主主义等等思想作为当时的新思潮相继流传到国内。受这些思想的影响,许多知识 “Populism” is a transliteration of the English language Democracy. Its earliest appearance, about in February 1917, was once popular in Chinese thought circles. Since the latter part of World War I, the thoughts of “mutual aidism”, “pan-laborism” and “laboring revolution in Russia” as well as the “new” democratism of the capitalist countries are all circulating in the country as new trends of thought at that time. Affected by these ideas, much knowledge