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Map of Asia. The politics of Asia are extremely varied as would be expected of such a large landmass and a diverse population. Constitutional monarchies, absolute monarchies, one-party states, federal states, dependent territories, liberal democracies and military dictatorships are all factors in the region, as well as various forms of independence movements.
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, [a] is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. A difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a united ...
[41] Soviet philosopher N. P. Farberov stated: "People's democracy in the people's republics is a democracy of the toiling classes, headed by the working class, a broad and full democracy for the overwhelming majority of the people, that is, a socialist democracy in its character and its trend. In this sense, we call it popular."
Unitary one-party socialist republic [27] Asia: People's Republic of China [28] [29] 1949: 1976: Mao Zedong [2] Chinese Communist Party: Chinese communism Maoism Marxism–Leninism: Unitary one-party socialist republic: Asia: Republic of Korea [30] [31] 1961: 1979: Park Chung Hee: Supreme Council for National Reconstruction Democratic ...
Ukraine was briefly declared a people's republic in 1917. [15] The Khanate of Khiva [16] and the Emirate of Bukhara, [17] both territories of the former Russian Empire, were transformed into people's republics in 1920. In 1921, the Russian protectorate of Tuva became a people's republic, [18] followed in 1924 by neighbouring Mongolia. [19]
Anarcho-communism is a libertarian theory of anarchism and communism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production; [285] [286] direct democracy; and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on ...
The doctrine of democratic centralism served as one of the sources of the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Mensheviks supported a looser party discipline within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903 as did Leon Trotsky , in Our Political Tasks , [ 7 ] although Trotsky joined ranks with the Bolsheviks in 1917.
For Bordiga, both stages of socialist or communist society—with stages referring to historical materialism—were characterized by the gradual absence of money, the market, and so on, the difference between them being that earlier in the first stage, a system of rationing would be used to allocate goods to people, while in communism this ...