Democratic centralism what is it ?

[crazy comie]

Democratic centralism what is it ?.

[redstar2000]

Try these two threads...

http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...&f=6&t=17207&s= (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=17207&s=)

http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?a...&f=6&t=16926&s= (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=16926&s=)

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The RedStar2000 Papers (http://www.sawu.org/redstar2000)
A site about communist ideas

[crazy comie]

Any books on the subject

[Saint-Just]

It very simply means that the political arena is open to debate and criticism, but that the majority decision is always greeted with unified acceptance.

[Severian]

Or in other words, debate within the party, but no airing your dirty laundry in public, and once the decision is made (by majority vote), everybody helps carry it out. If you still disagree, there'll be a time to rediscuss it in the future (before the next party convention, for example.)

Books... What is to be Done by Lenin is about what kind of party is needed. Not sure if the exact words democratic centralism are used, but the concept's there.

History of the Bolshevik Party by Zinoviev gives some good info on what the Bolshevik Party was like and how it applied democratic centralism.

The Communist International series edited by John Riddell is a collection of all the major documents of the early Comintern, including its resolutions laying out how Communist Parties should organize themselves, how all the leaders, newspapers, etc., of the party need to be representing the party's line and not their individual opinions, and so forth. The book on the Second Congress, titled Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite, has some especially good stuff.

Edit for typo

[crazy comie]

Thanks