- Capitalist republic
A capitalist republic is a concept of government completely the reverse of Marxist thought. Whereas a
socialist republic is a "dictatorship of the proletariat ", a capitalist republic is a "dictatorship of thebourgeoisie ". In "On New Democracy",Mao Zedong distinguished his vision of a New Democratic Republic from a capitalist republic, which he characterized as an "old European-American form" of government that was "out of date". [cite book|title=Ideological Conflicts in Modern China: Democracy and Authoritarianism|author=Wen-shun Chi|pages=241|date=1986|publisher=Transaction Publishers|id=ISBN 1560006080] [cite book|author=Mao Zedong|title=On New Democracy|publisher=Foreign Languages Press|location=Peking|date=1967|volume=II|pages=350]A capitalist republic was the goal of Sean Murray in the
Irish Republicanism movement in the 1930s. At a meeting inRathmines , Murray advocated a capitalist republic for Ireland, taking what commentators have described as a "stages" approach, where national freedom and socialism were treated as distinct stages in the goals that Republicans sought to achieve. Murray advocated first the achievement of national freedom, to form a capitalist republic, followed by a transition from a capitalist republic to a socialist republic. Other Republicans, Gilmore and O'Donnell, sought the same goal but with the stages in the reverse order: uprooting capitalism through struggle and thereby achieving national independence as a consequence. Mike Milotte has noted that although Murray advocated a capitalist republic, "by avoiding the prefix its precise class nature was obscured". [cite book|title=Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925–1937|author=Richard English|pages=229|date=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|id=ISBN 019820289X|chapter=Schism, Republican Solipsism, and Spain] [cite book|title=Communism in Modern Ireland: The Pursuit of the Workers' Republic Since 1916|author=Milotte, Mike|date=1984|publisher=Gill and Macmillan, Holmes and Meier]References
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