Party structures of Communist party state are defined by Design Features: Chinese political system borrowed organizational design from Soviet Union by Lenin political legitimacy. ... The description of Communist party leadership is set forth in the constitution. ... Communist Party Leadership: the Communist Party exercises direct leadership over government and legislative functions in a variety of ways. ... First, membership in the Communist Party is coming from the elite status. ... Rule by Law: the principle of "rule of law" is the protection of individual rights by limitation on a...

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Background Marxism is a series of economical, social and political based ideologies that oppose capitalism. As defined by the communist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.... "5 Marx acquired the need for religion, but regarded religion as a subtle part to his ideologies. ... Taken by the government, the communists were behind this, as my father would always say. ... In the interview with my grandmother, she viewed the social conditions of this time period to be ridiculous and ironically unfair opposing Marx's actual ideology. ...

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The struggle to lead China has caused the country to undergo mass socio-economic changes on more than one occasion, from the fall of imperialism in 1911 to the rise of the Nationalists and Communists. ... Evidently, these ideologies remained enduring features of Mao's thought well into the Cultural Revolution. ... As a Marxist, Mao believed in Karl Marx's theories published in The Communist Manifesto (1848), and from the beginning of Mao's dictatorship in 1921, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials applied Mao's theories that people's lives should be controlled by t...

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Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... Events casting the Cultural Revolution in a negative light include the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the rise of Occidentalism, availability of new evidence and the death of Lin Biao. ... While most historians were analysed according to their general and individual perspectives at the time of writing, others were sim...

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