The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains in power, presiding over a largely capitalist system, although state-owned enterprises continue to form a large part of the economy. Freedom of expression is significantly curtailed and meaningful opposition to the reigning Communist Party isn't permitted. It...
The democratic transition of post-communist Europe: in the shadow of communist differences and uneven Europeanisation , by Milenko Petrovic, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xix + 196 pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-230-35431-9doi:10.1080/00085006.2016.1165924Canadian Slavonic Papers Revue ...
Is Pakistan a democracy or a dictatorship? Is Saudi Arabia a democracy? Is Myanmar a democratic country? Is Singapore an oligarchy? Is Ireland a republic? Is the Dominican Republic a communist country? What is the population of the People's Republic of China?
I think it's also true that the party itself, the Communist Party of China itself, has been transformed in certain ways as well. It initially was a Marxist-Leninist party that embraced Mao Zedong Thought, and that was essentially a revolutionary party by definition. But now it...
Under the original Cold War alliance designations, the first world consisted of the U.S., Western Europe, and their allies. The second world was the so-called Communist Bloc: the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc. The remaining nations, which didn’t align with either group, were assigned ...
Soon there was a Communist Caucus in DSA — along with a bunch of others. Whether the internal dissonance can be contained and managed long-run remains to be seen, but then what is politics but a continuous series of crises? It’s to the organization’s credit that it has held itself ...
After the Second World War, the political tensions of theCold Warand the economic drain of maintaining its status as a global military superpower slowly weakened the Soviet Union’s grip over its Eastern Bloc communist satellite nations, such as East Germany and Poland. By the 1990s, the preval...
"democratic deficit". a climate change sceptic, she wants to lower taxes, end the minimum wage, slim down the state and end the costly shift to a carbon neutral economy. she has also called for much tighter restrictions on immigration, tapping into a well of discontent in germa...
Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes—specifically between the bourgeoisie, or capitalists, and the proletariat, or workers—defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will lead inevitably to a communist revolution.
In China, the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a basic element of China’s political framework. The CPPCC is a special consultative body and an important part of the national governance system. More than 200...