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The premise of the "People's democratic dictatorship" is that the party and state represent and act on behalf of the people, but in the preservation of the dictatorship of the proletariat, possess and may use powers against reactionary forces. [1] The term forms one of the CCP's Four Cardinal Principles.
The Maoist Communist Party of China (Chinese: 中国毛泽东主义共产党) is an anti-revisionist communist party founded in 2008. The party seeks to initiate a "second socialist revolution" to re-establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. It has been subject to crackdowns by the Chinese government. [29]
[11] [12] It seeks to organise a vanguard party to lead a proletarian uprising to assume power of the state, the economy, the media, and social services (academia, health, etc.), on behalf of the proletariat and to construct a single-party socialist state representing a dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship of the proletariat is to ...
[10]: 25 The Common Program defined China as a new democratic country which would practice a people's democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat and based on an alliance of workers and peasants which would unite all of China's democratic classes (defined as those opposing imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism and favoring an ...
The party's centralised and hierarchical organisational structure is based on democratic centralism, which was conceived by Vladimir Lenin. [21] [22] This structure entails that lower party organs obey the decisions of the higher ones, such as the LPRP Central Committee. [22] It also entails a ban on internal party factions. [22]
The MCPC is strongly against economic reforms pursued by the CCP which have, according to the party, "restored capitalist social conditions". As such, it seeks to overthrow the "traitorous revisionist ruling bloc within the Chinese Communist Party" by initiating a "second socialist revolution" to re-establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Building on the theory of the vanguard party [37] by Vladimir Lenin, the theory of the mass line outlines a strategy for the revolutionary leadership of the masses, consolidation of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and strengthening of the party and the building of socialism. The mass line can be summarised as "from the masses, to the masses".
The Chinese constitution describes China's system of government as a people's democratic dictatorship. [41] The CCP has also used other terms to officially describe China's system of government including "socialist consultative democracy", and whole-process people's democracy . [ 42 ]