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| | ISML ISSUE 5 |
 | | Democratic centralism is a political and organisational principle in which the party centre is the congress of delegates which formulates the party programme by majority decisions and elects a central leadership to lead the party into action. | | | However, his own recollection is that the verbal formulations offered to the floor of the London conference by Open Polemic stated that the success of revisionism stemmed from democratic centralism. | | | She admits: "There is much in Open Polemic's proposals for a more "democratic" democratic centralism, which is reminiscent of Trotsky." Whether Rowe is a member or not of Open Polemic is not entirely clear to us, but irrespective of that, the sense of her following statement is precisely what is demanded by Open Polemic: |
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http://website.lineone.net/~partisan_britain/ISML/isml05/isml0504.html
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| | Roca Report: August 1998: 98augrr.htm |
| | This is seen in the ANC’s decision to appoint, rather than elect, provincial premiers in future, in the appointment of a senior ANC politician to the new post of chief prosecutor and its extraordinary reaction to the judgment in the SA Rugby Union/Louis Luyt case. | | | The principle at stake in the Sarfu case was the democratic right of private companies to run their affairs without government interference. | | | From 1994 he was the chief ANC spokesman to the Senate and, when it was replaced by the National Council of Provinces, he became its permanent deputy chairman. |
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http://ligstryders.tripod.com/roca/98augrr.htm
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| | Mongolia - The Political Process |
| | While serving as head of the Central Committee's Department of Science and Education, he became chairman of the Council of Ministers in June 1974, without first being elected to Political Bureau membership. | | | This was well illustrated by the fact that Colonel General Jamsrangiyn Yondon, minister of defense in 1989, was not a member of the Central Committee when he was selected for the senior government defense post in 1982. | | | The fifth plenary session concluded with the Central Committee's adoption of a seven-point resolution espousing the democratization of the political system. |
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http://countrystudies.us/mongolia/62.htm
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| | Democratic Symbols |
| | Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- ADL Terrorist Symb | | | the lower half of the circle says "The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine... | | | Fact Monster - The Democratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant |
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http://www.bluedogdemocrats.com/democratic-symbols.html
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| | Glossary of Terms: De |
| | Kautsky, leader of the German Social Democrats, held that the working class would inevitably become larger and larger, the petit-bourgeoisie would disappear, and the Social-Democrats would eventually be able to win government and legislate socialism. | | | They were frequently dispersed by the police and were amateurish and in a continual state of flux. | | | This old dispute, long since resolved by the October revolution, was used as a means of attacking Trotsky. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/e.htm
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| | DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM AND THE PARTY OF A NEW TYPE |
| | It is the congress which appoints the central institutions, which then become the top until the next congress. | | | Thus the centralist organisation does not repudiate democracy, but depends on democratic decisions taken by members at the congress. | | | 'This is absolutely essential for us, because there can be no question of replacing it by general democratic control in Russia. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~partisan_britain/pb/html/democent.html
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| | Tourish, Dennis, Ph.D.: " Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism, and Cultism" |
| | It would not be a loose federation, but a tightly integrated fighting force with a powerful central committee and a rule that all members publicly defend the agreed-upon positions of the party, whatever opinions they might hold to the contrary in private. | | | The "demand for purity" is thus central to Trotskyist practice, but is inimical to the norms of democratic debate. | | | Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism, and Cultism: A Case Study from the Political Left |
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http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/tourish_dennis_politicalleft.htm
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| | Organisational Democracy and Discipline in the Movement |
| | The responsibility for the democratic character of the ANC is the responsibility of both leaders and cadres. | | | The ANC is a non-racial and democratic liberation movement; | | | The ANC constitution, as adopted in 1994, has following to say about the democratic character of the ANC as a liberation movement. |
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http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/discussion/discipline.html
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| | Democratic Centralism-Hitchens [Free Republic] |
| | All the lesser-evilists write as if they would be personally responsible for the next Supreme Court appointment, and in the next moment throw their votes into the unsorted heap that lies at the foot of the Dear Leader. | | | The moral resemblance to a plebiscite in a one-party state is not utterly coincidental; "lesser-evilism" equals, and always has equaled, voting Democratic every time and no matter what. | | | But then, if you can "objectively" blame dissenters for bringing us Nixon, you can easily overlook the group named Democrats for Nixon, which actually campaigned for the guy, and campaigned for him after his first evil four years. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39efb1c81d16.htm
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| | The Militant - 1/13/97 -- Why Do Communists Use Democratic Centralism? |
| | Centralism is based on the democratic principle of majority rule. | | | Basically, it is a method of exercising the right of the majority to see that its decision is carried out. | | | Under democratic centralist procedures, after a decision has been made in a dispute, those in the minority are bound by the party decision reached by majority vote. |
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http://www.themilitant.com/1997/612/612_23.html
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| | Bolshevism, Fraudulent Practice Of Democratic Centralism |
| | Among the leaders in exile, democratic discussion was axiomatic, but in the Bolshevik faction, once the leaders had decided, the rest (back in Russia) had to carry out the decisions. | | | FROM the start of the Russian Revolution, democratic tendencies became the rage. | | | The statements issued by the emigre center was the law! |
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http://www.weisbord.org/Fraudulent.htm
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| | open polemic abandons leninist democratic centralism |
| | This stands opposed to the principle of democratic centralism, which makes the central institutions the "top" between party congresses. | | | Originally it saw the fragmented movement in this country as comparable with Russia in the 1890s, but with an historical obstacle to unity: each grouplet imposed its own iron discipline and was run on democratic centralist lines, and in practice was more centralist than democratic. | | | This formal democracy, however, is a negation of democratic centralism as an organisational principle. |
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http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/polemic.html
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| | Marcel Liebman on Lenin and democracy |
| | It was Lenin who offered a resolution at the congress stating that “the principle of democratic centralism in the Party is now universally accepted”. | | | On several occasions the Bolsheviks, at Lenin& urging, refused to carry out decisions made by the Central Committee elected at the Stockhohn Congress. | | | This was the origin of the formula of the “democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry”. |
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http://members.optushome.com.au/spainter/Liebman.html
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| | Nhan Dan --- Life |
| | Centralism can’t stand alone since all the decision to be carried out democratically prior to the formation of centralism, are based on the fullest exercise of the rights and responsibility of each Party member. | | | The Party and its units will be united and words will be accompanied by action. | | | The operation of the Party is based on democratic centralist principle. |
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http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/030205/centralism.htm
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| | The SWP vs. Lenin BUREAUCRATIC CENTRALISM OR DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM? | | | In fact, his position is the exact opposite of that argued by Lenin even in 1902, at the height of his polemicising against the economists for a centralised vanguard party: We must centralise the leadership of the movement. | | | H This article was written by ex-SWP comrades, September 1994. |
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http://www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/swp.txt
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| | Democratic Centralism |
| | The truly successful revolutions of history were led by revolutionary parties operating under the principle of democratic centralism. | | | The centralism refers to the mandate that all members uphold all decisions made by the democratic processes of the organization. | | | This is not to say that cliques will not exist in a party. |
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http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/democent.html
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| | The Scottish debate: On Democratic Centralism |
| | This is what the comrades mean when they state "... | | | It has become clear that the International Socialist Movement is not acting as a collective political force. | | | The essence of Bolshevism was that democratic centralism was grounded in the revolutionary Marxist programme of the party. |
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http://www.marxist.net/scotland/aug2000/CWI/2.htm
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| | Tony Cliff: Democratic centralism (1968) |
| | The Federal Principle &; the idea that the Executive of a revolutionary organisation should be made up of one delegate per branch – is untenable: | | | The decision on War or Peace – the Brest-Litovsk discussion – was again taken by the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. | | | In arguing against Democratic Centralism anarchists and Social Democrats say: “But see, the Bolshevik Party with such a structure led to Stalinism.&; It was the lack of Bolshevism in Germany and elsewhere that led to the isolation of the Russian revolution and hence to the rise of Stalinism. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1968/06/democent.htm
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| | RCP Programme |
| | Differences of opinion are struggled out in a vigorous and principled way within the party; in the face of the enemy, there is the firmest unity. | | | This principle of democratic centralism is used to create a political situation inside the party in which there is both centralism and democracy; both unified line and broad initiative; both discipline and ideological struggle; and both unity of will and action and personal ease of mind and liveliness. | | | The party organizes itself on the basis of democratic centralism. |
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http://rwor.org/margorp/a-party-e.htm
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| | Democratic Centralism? - Indymedia Ireland |
| | One law for the rich Mar 21 06 by Hilda | | | Only if it is used in a democratic way | | | Contrary to what the CWI had argued capitalism was reestablished in the stalinist world, the social democratic parties lost their working class base and the world economy did not collapse into slump. |
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67964
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| | Experimentia Est Optima Rerum Magistra |
| | Cannon, one of the leading figures of American Trotskyism declared: | | | Having finally established the Bolshevik Party on the principles of democratic centralism, Lenin was then most adamant that this principle should be upheld. | | | It emphasised that the Party's ability to act as a 'disciplined united collective' is dialectically connected with the fullest development of is democratic life and the maximum involvement of its members in the formation and fights for its policy. |
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http://www.redaction.org/open/experimentia.html
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| | Democratic centralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For the national political structure contrasted to democratic federalism, see democratic unitary state. | | | The democratic aspect of this organizational method describes the freedom of members of the political party to discuss and debate matters of policy and direction, but once the decision of the party is made by majority vote, all members are expected to follow that decision in public. | | | Lenin's model for such a party, which he repeatedly discussed as being 'democratic centralist', was the German Social Democratic Party. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism
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| | On Democratic Centralism |
| | Quite the contrary: Having many parties often leads to sham competition based on personalities, as in the U.S., with the Democrats and Republicans. | | | A democratic-centralist party organizes full discussion: each party member is required to express his frank opinion on all party policies, and all workers outside the party are urged to do the same. | | | The Party is organized on the basis of democratic centralism. |
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http://www.plp.org/pl_magazine/democent.html
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| | Democratic Centralism |
| | At a unity conference held in 1906, the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks voted for a resolution that stated: "All party organizations are built on the principles of democratic centralism". | | | In any case, whatever differences would resurface in the period leading up to 1917, "democratic centralism" was not one of them. | | | The best discussion of democratic centralism I've ever seen is in chapter seven of Paul LeBlanc's "Lenin and the Revolutionary Party". |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/organization/DemocraticCentralism.htm
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| | Fragments of talk on organisation |
| | Everybody will be required to abide by decisions that are made. | | | The leadership under democratic centralism is the highest decision making body..It is able to overrule existing policy if it wishes. | | | Technically this is a departure from democratic centralism. |
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http://struggle.ws/talks/organisation.html
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| | The Party |
| | Within Party committees, democratic centralism alone should be practised. | | | The organisational principles expounded in this work later became the organisational foundation of the Bolshevik Party and the parties of the new type. | | | "Without democratic centralism, the dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be consolidated. |
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http://www.peoplesmarch.com/publications/mlm/chapter14.htm
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| | Why we need Democratic Centralism |
| | But we all enrol in the school of democratic centralism as soon as we begin to participate in the workers' movement. | | | Another misconception is that "democratic centralism" refers to a specific set of rules which may or not be applicable in a specific situation, usually not. | | | There are very many misconceptions about the meaning of "democratic centralism", mainly as a result of the bad name given to the theory by misuse of the term by Stalinist parties and Trotskyist sects. |
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http://home.pacific.net.au/~sp/magazine/dec96/demcen.htm
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| | Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Albania / Glossary |
| | Founded in August 1975, in Helsinki, when thirty-five nations signed the Final Act, a politically binding declaratory understanding of the democratic principles governing relations among nations, which is better known as the Helsinki Accords (q.v. | | | Originally a Greek city, Byzantium, it was made the capital of the Byzantine Empire by Constantine the Great and was soon renamed Constantinople in his honor. | | | Comecon was created in 1949, ostensibly to promote economic development of member states through cooperation and specialization, but actually to enforce Soviet economic domination of Eastern Europe and to provide a counterweight to the Marshall Plan. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/albania/al_glos.html
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| | The Scottish debate: Democratic Centralism |
| | Indeed, the constitution of the Scottish Socialist Party itself upholds this key ingredient of democratic centralism. | | | This it is understood does not mean that the development of the party does not raise organisational problems as such. | | | In a recent Socialism Today article on the case for a new workers party Peter Taaffe, the general secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales, criticises the Socialist Workers Party for using strength of numbers to railroad through their position at a meeting of the Lewisham London Socialist Alliance. |
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http://www.marxist.net/scotland/aug2000/ISM/4.htm
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| | On a performing system of democratic centralism |
| | Our government is accountable to the People's Congress at the same level, that is, the Municipal People's Congress. | | | We are fu lly convinced that with the attention and care of the central government and with support from fraternal provinces and with the concentrated efforts of the people of this city, the future of Lhasa will be even brighter. | | | With support from the central government and from the provinces responsible for assisting Tibet, the construction of the city has been making very good progress. |
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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fline/fl1718/17181240.htm
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| | Definition of democratic - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | For More Information on "democratic" go to Britannica.com | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "democratic" | | | 3 : relating to, appealing to, or available to the broad masses of the people art> |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=democratic
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