The constitution describes the political system as a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship. ... Inner party rule decision making are based on the principle of democratic centralism. In democratic socialism, democracy mainly refers to consultation. ... They are responsible to observe the inner-party discipline of democratic centralism. ... Party core groups are appointed by the party committees in one level up. ...

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Other progressive changes included the enactment of a democratic modeled Soviet constitution, the establishment of a Constituent Assembly and the Bolshevik's socialist commitment to the emancipation of women in The Marriage Code of 1918. These reforms demonstrate the democratic side of Bolshevism as it successfully yielded popularity when the government was fragile and lacked a traditional machinery of power because they appealed to the populace. ... However, this democratic experiment resulted in a loss of 2 million square kilometers of land and the loss of 60 million people, as well...

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Shortly after World War II there was a power struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. ... A democratic system would allow citizens to choose representatives that would voice the thoughts of people, and with the economic reforms. ... These two people belong to differing classes and there is no way the government can appease them, however a democratic system would bring into a sense of what the majority is looking for. ... What makes the CCP so successful in the 21st century is their abilit...

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The classic socialist ideology of Robert Owen and Karl Marx, that had stood the Labour Party in good stead since its foundation was being re-forged and honed, the post war political scene was evolving into something entirely different to what had gone before. ... These convictions have held true since the inception of the Labour Party in 1900, and with the benefit of hindsight, a logical progression can be detected in the evolutionary socialism of the Labour Party of Kier Hardy, reaching in a direct line to Tony Blaire and his Third Way politics for the New Labour Party. ... The message of the...

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Daniel E Teodoru (1998) summarizes Minh's plans as "to hold high the banner of national people's democratic revolution, develop it into a socialist revolution and build socialism bypassing the stage of capitalist development" (1998). ... Minh dedicated his time to developing his communist party. ... Unlike Western and capitalist discourse, where the individual rises above the party and proclaims his or her vision for the people, Ho presented leadership through the collective effects of the 'Party'. ... "Party of the workers' class, it (the Party) will guide proletariat...

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However the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never clearly indicates that if it intends to loosen control for the potential reforms. ... In both examples of large-scale protests, we can hardly see any evidence showing that the workers or peasants were hoping to challenge the existing political structure from the ideological basis, although they do require some extent of democratic changes. ... Yet facing the iron-fist control of CCP on any protest or social mass movement, neither group is able to push the ruling party into reform. ... As a result, such heightened nationalism does facilit...

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When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions in 1903, Stalin joined the more militant Bolshevik party led by Lenin. ... Stalin gained a lot of control when he was elected secretary of the communist party in 1922. ...

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Then In 1912 Lenin and his supporters organized a party conference in Prague At this conference, Lenin formally broke from his Menshevik opponents and the rest of the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party) to form an independent Bolshevik party. ... He arrived back in Russia on April 3 in Petrograd during the All-Russian Conference of Bolshevik Party Workers. ... When Lenin was building up the Bolsheviks lots of people started to look at them more seriously. he exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who arrived in Petrograd in May from America, agreed with Lenin's policy and joined the...

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Petersburg where he registered for the bar as well as continued his efforts in opposition to not only the Tsarist government, but also the Narodniki, who were part of the Social Revolutionary Party which was also opposed to the Tsarist government for decades. ... In this book, he carefully outlines his concept of political action and completely rejects the Western role of a democratic political party working within the framework of parliamentary democracy. It was around this time that he began to attack another enemy, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. ... Shortly afterwards, Karl K...

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"The communist international should represent a single universal communist party of which the parties operating in every country form individual sections." The Commintern implied Twenty one conditions for admission in to the group, something that was intended to centralize and strengthen the parties control and further their chance of revolution. ... In Britain there was a general strike as a result of British coal miners being threatened with longer hours and lower wages however it was soon called off due to their lack of support from the Communist Party. ... The Communists even sup...

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The next year, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Party after meeting one of its members. The Party was founded in 1898. ... Vladimir Lenin was one of the leaders of the party. ... During this time the Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. ... In 1912, Lenin promoted Stalin into the leading Bolshevik Party. ...

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After disagreements arose at the London Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in 1903, Lenin and his following split away from the Mensheviks who were the classical Marxists and formed the Bolshevik Party. ... At this point they would establish the "revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat."" If Marx's theory "that government is an instrument of exploitation and that capitalism drives society to two extremes- holds true then his philosophy of revolution "was both perfectly logical and perfectly democratic."" The idea of a "democratic dictatorship- was justifie...

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This disagreement led to the eventual split of the Social Democratic party into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. ... During his years in Switzerland he rose to a position of power in the Social Democratic party. His uncompromising views were a cause for the split in the party. ... At age forty seven Vladimir Lenin was named president of the Society of People's Commissars (Communist Party). ...

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Despite the fact that there are several other candidates running, the media only focuses on the two major parties: Republicans and Democrats. One might wonder why those two parties are the only ones recognized by mass media; well the answer is obvious, because they"re the ones with all the money. In last year's election, Green Party candidate Ralph Nadar was not even allowed to appear on the nationally televised debate. ... The media makes a huge deal about the Republican and Democratic candidates, but they say nothing about the other parties or their candidates. ... Also, most of the...

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Mainstream media has demonized communism and socialism in recent history because of conflicts with nations who belong to those parties, is this justified? ... Democratic socialism is the most widely used, with multiple countries operating very successfully under a mixture of capitalism and socialism. Many more countries could start seeing the blueprint laid out by western European countries and join in on the social-democratic party. ... Democratic socialism is likely to become more and more prevalent as time goes on, as it is proving to be one of the most balanced and effective systems. ...

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Taiwan is the exemplary East Asian model of a formerly authoritarian regime turned democratic due in part to economic development. ... Although the government played a smaller role in the management of the nation's economy, " the Leninist-style system of party dictatorship, constituting perhaps the most essential of Deng's four basic principles, was carefully maintained."6 As China's leader, Deng was unwilling to allow economic development translate into political freedom. Any reform that challenged one-party rule could be detrimental to the Chinese government in the long run. ....

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These include the different social, political and economic causes of the Russian Revolution, things such as which social class should lead the uprising, the Mensheviks who wanted to change Russia by a democratic vote and social reform. ... During this time many of the political parties that had been working underground finally came to the surface, the main contenders were the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Mensheviks want a social reform but wanted it to be done in gradual way with each change being looked at by the government and then implemented democratically, but the Bolsheviks had a d...

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The single party system made it easy for a totalitarian style leader to take hold of the reigns of power. ... This gained him support from the lower and middle classes and directly attacked the socialist party. ... Hitler was smart, he did not openly attack democracy and bring the direct scrutiny of its democratic oppressors, and he played the nationalism card, and used the Treaty of Versailles as the oppressor. This alone could not have brought the small Nazi party to power. ...

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Single-party states tend to arise during times of crisis; whether it's because of political instability, war, or an economic recession. ... Once in power, any single-party leader must find means to quiet down the opposition, as fears may grow of him being deposed. ... The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the KPD (Communist Party) were two opposition groups in Germany that had the majority of the support of the working class, who made up 45% of the population. ... However, things got out of hand as Mao's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) realized that their power was being undermined. .....

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The Bolsheviks, which had been formed due to a split of the Social Democratic Labor party in 1903, found new popularity, mainly due to its leader, Vladimir Lenin. ... He became the leader the party needed, and set about gaining support for his ideas from peasants and factory workers abroad. The Bolshevik party quickly changed from a small, irrelevant party to a highly disciplined party that was successful in gaining support from these people which resulted in an eventual majority in the Petrograd Soviet in a few short months. ... The Bolsheviks found it difficult to rule the country...

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The pluralist view of the state is usually, virtually always, the hegemonic view within capitalist democratic societies. ... They believe that competition is healthy, and they believe that there are or ought to be many things', in politics this is represented by the belief that there should be lots of competing powers, for example political parties and interest groups. ... The theorist Michels put forward the idea that no matter what a political party says about how democratic and free it is it will still be mainly influenced or controlled by a small group of elites, this was what named ...

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Also, similarly to Russia the army controls the parties. ... The US, should support the radicals in China and help them to over throw the communist party so that the Chinese can move on. ... By allowing the people to elect a President, they would be getting the structure they craved and at the same time the democratic system that they need. ...

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These historical ideas (in which the bias of political, social and class background should be considered), shared with historians such as Leon Trotsky, state that the Russian Revolution, and the beginnings of the workers class dismantling '‎the party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie' was an inevitable and significant event, and was handled expertly by the Bolshevik's. ... As with Marxist thought, bias should be considered on Western-Liberal ideals as its historians are often belonging to a (primarily) free and democratic society, where overthrow of opp...

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The society in the book is an optimistic and very democratic one. The fundamentals in which their society is based on reminds me of those of any democratic form of government. ... I find this to be the most democratic commandment of all. Also what I found to be very democratic about their society is that there are multiple parties in control of their society. ... I believe that debating is essential to any democratic society. ...

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By the summer of 1920 he considered himself a Marxist; a year later he was one of the twelve men to found the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. ... In the fifth attack the Red Army was defeated by one million Kuomintang troops due to poor tactics employed by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. ... The armed forces of the Chinese Communist party were setting up bases, working with the people, and establishing the social revolution for China even as the military fought the Japanese enemy. ... Mao and the Communists were not recognized by the United Nations (Even today com...

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