Democratic dictatorship

Democratic dictatorship

In Mao Zedong's China ‘democratic dictatorship’ was where democracy was to extended to ‘the people’, and dictatorial methods were applied to those excluded from the ranks of ‘the people'. ‘The people’ were the members of the four social classes; the working class, the peasantry, the petty bourgeois and the national bourgeois. According to Mao, the people were to enjoy freedom of speech, assembly, and association, they were to have the right to vote and elect their own government which was to exercise the dictatorial methods over the excluded masses. [Meisner, Maurice, "Mao's China and After" 3rd Edition, (New York: The Free Press, 1999), pp.58-60.]

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