The Chartist Movement marked the proletariat as a British independent political force was on the stage of history, starting with the struggle of bourgeoisie for political power. Although the Chartist Movement failed, it had great influence in English history and international workers' movement. The Chartist Movement was the first independent national political movement of the working class, which had experiences and lessons on International Workers' Movement. The lessons from the Chartist Movement played a significant role on Marx and Engels scientific communist theory; the struggle of Chartist achieved some progresses for British workers. In order to avoid repeating the Chartist movement, the bourgeoisie government had to make some concessions to the working class. After Chartism Movement failed, some participants in this movement moved to the United States, Australia and New Zealand; they spread the seed of democratic theory into these places, which made an important contribution to the development of democratic movement.
British parliamentary-based democratization process was completed nearly 300 years; it was a result of long-term struggling made by British industrial and commercial class and the people, especially the working class and land nobles, and big bourgeoisie. And undoubtedly the Chartist Movement had a significant impact on the UK political democratization process. All previous election reform movement in the second half of the nineteenth century was affected by Chartism Movement at a varying degree. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British basically realized the universal suffrage of citizens; the representative system of bourgeoisie was improved gradually. In the Chartism Movement, heroic struggle did by working class and the masses fought for the right of universal suffrage greatly encouraged the European working class. They applied the peace or armed methods to strive for the right of democracy, which advanced the progress of democratic politics.
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