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Comment: Lenin’s theory of ‘Democratic Centralism’.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Western Political Thought

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Democratic centralism is the organising rule Vladimir Ilyich Lenin gave the revolutionary party: open debate until a decision is taken, binding discipline once it is. His own shorthand, in his 1906 report on the Stockholm congress, was "freedom of discussion, unity of action". It promised inner-party democracy with the cohesion of a fighting organisation; in…

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