近来,在深入学习江泽民同志“三个代表”思想的热潮中,有关私营企业主能否入党的问题成了党建工作中的一个有较大争议的热门话题。社会各界人士也纷纷撰文发表看法或对此表示关注。本文拟对此作一综述。一背景分析新时期,党的第三代领导集体高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜,坚 Recently, on the upsurge of studying Comrade Jiang Zemin’s thinking on “three represents,” the question of whether private entrepreneurs can join the party has become a hotly contested issue in party-building work. People from all walks of life have also published their opinions or expressed concern about this. This article intends to make a summary of this. In the new period of background analysis, the third-generation leading collective of the Party held aloft the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory,