What is the People's democratic dictatorship

[orihara]

Could anyone please explain to me what the People's democratic dictatorship is, and how it would work in practice?

[Ahab Strange]

Are you referring to the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat"?

Or is this something specific you've heard about in a specific context?

[ArisVelouxiotis]

How can you have a democratic dictatorship

[motion denied]

How can you have a democratic dictatorship

Every "democracy", as any form of political power, is a dictatorship of some kind... Or class. A 'democratic dictatorship' is when the majority, the proletariat, rules over its exploiters towards its own extinction.

[Brutus]

Dictatorship means the imposition of a rule on others who do not consent to it; democracy means the rule of the majority. Any rule is a dictatorship unless all decisions are unanimous, as even a democracy is a dictatorship over the minority.

No communist will support a "people's dictatorship" as that would be in the interests of society as a whole (i.e. all classes). We're not utilitarians- we want a dictatorship of the working class which works towards the abolition of all classes and of all the various symptoms of class society.

[Slavic]

Every "democracy", as any form of political power, is a dictatorship of some kind... Or class. A 'democratic dictatorship' is when the majority, the proletariat, rules over its exploiters towards its own extinction.

Not to mention a consensus democracy is not feasible. There will always be those who oppose the ruling political power.

[Fourth Internationalist]

Could anyone please explain to me what the People's democratic dictatorship is, and how it would work in practice?

Do you mean like Lenin's "Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry"? I'm only familiar with Stalinists using the term "People's" in terms of describing some sort of nominally socialist state. Otherwise, there's no such concept as this that I'm aware about.

Edit: The term was used by the Chinese Stalinists (Maoists). Is that what you mean?

[Brutus]

Do you mean like Lenin's "Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry"?
Thankfully Lenin dropped that and went over to Trotsky's (and others like Rizanov's) position of a workers' government.

In the sense of the Maoists it was used to describe their class-collaborationist theories.

[ArisVelouxiotis]

Well he didn't say class dictatorship.
Dictatorship of political power(like all the ones we know)can't be democratic.
Except if by the people's he meant the dotp.

[JPSartre12]

From what my Maoist friends have told me, the "peoples' democratic dictatorship" is the application of Lenin's state-capitalist principles to Chinese material conditions, as means of a revolutionary party-controlled State using the organs of the State political apparatus to induce industrialization so as to lay the economic preconditions for socialism.

As others mentioned above, a Marxian "dictatorship" is simply one class asserting its economic hegemony over another. It has nothing to do with dictatorships in the liberal democratic sense of the word.

I'd recommend looking at Maoist literature, or talking to Maoists about it. They would probably know more about it than I would. If you're curious, though, you can take quick look at Mao's On the Peoples' Democratic Dictatorship at the Marxist Internet Archive here:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm