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• Democratic centralism.
• Democratic centralism is a political concept referring to the governance of political parties and groups. ... In Lenin's lifetime, democratic centralism was generally viewed as a set of principles for the organising of a revolutionary workers' party. ... Similarly, Lenin's theoretical model of democratic centralism was adapted from the work of Karl Kautsky as he makes clear in his pamphlet What is to Be Done which is popularly seen as the founding text of democratic centralism. As Lenin described it, democratic centralism consisted of "freedom of discussion and criticism, unity of action". ... This latter aspect represented the centralism. The doctrine of democratic centralism served as a source of the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, who supported a looser party discipline, within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903. ... This precipitated the end of the "democratic" element of democratic centralism within the party membership, and with the rise of Stalin to a position of absolute power within the party (and the Soviet Union), there was no freedom of discussion within the party, except by members of the ruling party Politburo. ...

• Democratic Centralism.
• Democratic centralism is a principle of organization that can be used (or abused) by any functioning group. ... The centralism refers to the mandate that all members uphold all decisions made by the democratic processes of the organization. ...
• Ironically it is people in these groups who most often oppose democratic centralism, deeming it undemocratic by comparing it to their own practice. ...
• Structurally, democratic centralism disperses power to all the members. ...
• If you accept the need for some kind of organized structure, the next question that inevitably arises (for those who support democracy) is why the discipline of centralism. ... As an organization that only loosely enforced anything resembling centralism, particularly in the early years, the BPP suffered much infiltration and destruction at the hands of the FBI, CIA and police. ... Rather than fostering healthy debate, the lack of centralism served to stifle it, allowing dishonest elements into destructively powerful and knowledgeable roles within their party. ... They may still pursue this destruction from within, and this is where the structure of centralism becomes necessary to fight against the formation of cliques that are aimed at undermining democratic processes.
• Democratic centralism protects the party from being discredited by individual cadres following their spontaneous whims - which cannot help but be influenced by bourgeois forces and ideology. Recognizing individualism as a danger, centralism mandates that political lines and the practice that they dictate be discussed and voted on by the membership before the party authorizes an action or statement in its name. Either way, from within or without, centralism provides a structure that enables the party to exist in the face of the powerful and destructive forces of the state. ...
• The truly successful revolutions of history were led by revolutionary parties operating under the principle of democratic centralism. ...
• Recognizing that everyone's personal lives have repercussions for the organization as a whole, the discipline of centralism allows the party to make rules to minimize the potential damage to the party. ...
• Democratic centralism is the only structure of organization proven to advance the revolutionary cause. ...

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• Democratic centralism.
• Democratic centralism is a political concept referring to the governance of political parties and groups. ...
• As Lenin described it, democratic centralism consisted of "freedom of discussion and criticism, unity of action". ... This latter aspect represented the centralism. The doctrine of democratic centralism served as one of the sources of the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. ...
• In Lenin's lifetime, democratic centralism was generally viewed as a set of principles for the organising of a revolutionary workers' party. ... Similarly, Lenin's theoretical model of democratic centralism was adapted from the work of Karl Kautsky, as he makes clear in his pamphlet What is to Be Done? 1 , which is popularly seen as the founding text of democratic centralism. ...
• This precipitated the end of the "democratic" element of democratic centralism within the party membership, and with the rise of Stalin to a position of absolute power within the party (and the Soviet Union), there was no freedom of discussion within the party, except by members of the ruling Politburo. ...

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• Democratic centralism is a political concept referring to governance of political parties and groups. ...
• In Lenin's lifetime democratic centralism was generally as a set of principles for the of a revolutionary workers' party. ... Similarly Lenin's theoretical model of democratic was adapted from the work of Karl Kautsky as he makes clear in his What is to Be Done? which is popularly seen as the text of democratic centralism. ...
• As Lenin described it democratic centralism consisted "freedom of discussion and criticism unity of The democratic aspect of this methodology describes the of members of the political party to and debate matters of policy and direction once the decision by the party was by majority vote all members were expected follow that decision unquestioningly in public. This aspect represented the centralism. The doctrine of democratic centralism served a source of the split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks who supported a looser party discipline the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903. ...
• This precipitated the end of the element of democratic centralism within the party and with the rise of Stalin to a position of absolute power the party (and the Soviet Union ) there was no freedom of discussion the party except by members of the party Politburo. ...
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• Open Polemic Abandons Democratic Centralism.
• The case against the 'Open Polemic' group, who have argued that the Leninist concept of Democratic Centralism needs to be replaced by the very different notion of "Multanimity". The Open Polemic grouping some time ago published a journal, "Prospect", claiming to be in favour of democratic centralism in the (future) Communist Party. ... The "multanimous", democratic centralist party is a term that seeks to revise the already fully explicit leninist concept of democratic centralism. ... It employs other new terms, such as "leader centralism", which the reader is invited in Prospect to substitute both for the trotskyist term "Stalinism" and for forms of centralist organisation (centralism). ... At first sight, the addition of the term "multanimity" appears to strengthen the democratic element in democratic centralism, but in fact it can only undermine and smash it by encouraging and even institutionalising factionalism. ... In fact, this principle stands in opposition to the leninist principle of democratic centralism. ... This stands opposed to the principle of democratic centralism, which makes the central institutions the "top" between party congresses. Beginning by attacking "leader centralism", the Open Polemic grouping arrive at an attack on leadership itself! The idea put forward by the Open Polemic that "historically specific" formulations are wrong reflects a desire to dispense with the history of the movement. The idea that we can do so, or airbrush it away with neologisms such as when Bob Smith invites us to substitute their new term "leader centralism" for the bourgeois word "Stalinism", reflects an impatience to do away with problems and attain unity without resolving them in practice. ...
• THE POLITICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PRINCIPLE OF DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM.
• Our organisation, Partisan (Britain), has always upheld democratic centralism as the organisational form of the party of the proletariat (Lenin's "party of a new type"). ... Those 'leaders' in Britain today who separate democracy from centralism always retain the latter. ... It is the experience of such misleaders which has confused the concept of democratic centralism. ... to evaluate and criticize their leaders reflects not the failure of democratic centralism, but the amateurishness of these revolutionaries. " Yet the Open Polemic attempts to depict us in its pages as "leader centralists" rather than as the proponents of democratic centralism. Why would it perpetrate this falsehood? Could it be that it needs to suggest that the leninist concept of democratic centralism, which we consistently advocate, is in need of revision, that it should be replaced by something sounding a lot like it but in fact wholly different? Yes! The notion they have in mind is "the multanimous, democratic centralist party". ... If the Open Polemic would have us believe that they are only referring to democratic centralism in writing of "multanimity", then why slander its proponents? If the Open Polemic uphold the principle of democratic centralism, why preface it with the word "multanimous"? Unless the Open Polemic is indulging in mere phrase-mongering, it must signify a departure from the concept of democratic centralism first defined by Lenin, and defended by Marxist-Leninists. The standpoint of "multanimity", representing a revision of the Leninist concept, is in reality a concealed attack on the organisational principle of democratic centralism. ... Rowe, a member of the OP editorial board) stands in opposition to the political and organisational principle of democratic centralism. ... " Those "defenders" of democratic centralism who find cause to amend the concept of democratic centralism along opportunist lines, would allow the least steadfast elements among their followers, as members of a communist party, the opportunity to give merely verbal acceptance of any decisions which needed to be made by the leadership after election! How wonderful to imagine such a multanimous party! It would be the home of middle class intellectuals continually disputing 'in open polemic' and arriving at best at some relative truth, having no reason for unity of action and unable to adhere to a unified programme. ... We prefer the principle of democratic centralism, which we have steadfastly proposed.

• ON DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM.
• The Party is organized on the basis of democratic centralism. ...
• Democratic centralism is communist democracy. ...
• Democratic centralism forces everyone to speak up. ...
• Democratic centralism forces people to evaluate themselves honestly and to listen to the evaluation of others (praise as well as criticism). ...
• Besides drawing on the strength of the collective, democratic centralism also forces us to act in a collective manner--to do what is best for the group. ...
• Finally, democratic centralism is based on struggling to weed out rotten ideas and anti-social behavior. ... Bourgeois democracy protects creeps, while only democratic centralism encourages full and open discussion and criticism.
• DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM AND .
• We can see the need for democratic centralism if we study the experience of past communist movements. For instance, in the Russian Revolution, many leaders thought that bourgeois democracy was the best system, but bitter experience taught them that only through democratic centralism could the revolution advance. When Lenin first proposed the idea of democratic centralism in What Is To Be Done? he was apologetic about the new concept, saying it was unfortunately necessary because of the repression in Czarist Russia. The idea that democratic centralism is an evil forced upon us by capitalist repression is still widespread. ... Democratic centralism is communist democracy; it is what we want to replace bourgeois democracy with.

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