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democratic centralism

noun

  1. the Leninist principle that policy should be decided centrally by officials, who are nominally democratically elected
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In a September 2009 New Yorker profile, Holbrooke described his method as “a form of democratic centralism.”

All organs of the party are closely interrelated and operate on the principle of democratic centralism.

The entire process has been said to represent the application of democratic centralism to planning.

Central to the observance of basic communist policy is adherence to the principles of democratic centralism.

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