democratic centralization

• democratic centralism
• democratic centralisation (non-Oxford British English)

democratic centralization (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of democratic centralism
   • 1933, Comintern, “Третий конгресс Коминтерна. 22 июня-12 июля 1921 г. Организационное строительство коммунистических партий, методы и содержание их работы. Тезисы”, in Коммунистический Интернационал в документах: Решения, тезисы и воззвания конгрессов Коминтерна и пленумов ИККИ, 1919-1932‎^[1], translation of “Leitsätze über den organisatorischen Aufbau der Kommunistischen Parteien, über die Methoden und den Inhalt ihrer Arbeit”, in Thesen und Resolutionen des III. Weltkongresses der Kommunistischen Internationale (Moskau, 22. Juni bis 12. Juli 1921.) (in German), 1921, page 107, page 202; English translation from Principles of Party Organization‎^[2], Calcutta: Mass Publications, 1975 November, pages 6-7:

     […]
     Органи́ческая связь достига́ется в коммунисти́ческих парти́йных организа́циях посре́дством демократи́ческого централи́зма.
     II. О демократи́ческом централи́зме
     6. Демократи́ческий централи́зм коммунисти́ческой парти́йной организа́ции до́лжен быть действи́тельным си́нтезом, слия́нием централи́зма и пролета́рской демокра́тии.
     […]

     [original: […]
     Diese organischen Verbindungen werden in der kommunistischen Parteiorganisation durch den demokratischen Zentralismus erstrebt.
     II. Ueber den demokratischen Zentralismus
     6. Der demokratische Zentralismus in der kommunistischen Parteiorganisation soll eine wirkliche Synthese, Verschmelzung des Zentralismus und der proletarischen Demokratie sein.
     […]]

     The organic unity in the Communist Party organization must be attained through democratic centralization.
     II. ON DEMOCRATIC CENTRALIZATION
     6. Democratic centralization in the Communist Party organization must be a real synthesis, a fusion of centralism and proletarian democracy.
     […]

   • 1934 [1932], Arthur Rosenberg, translated by Ian F. D. Morrow, A History of Bolshevism, translation of Geschichte des Bolschewismus (in German), page 148:

     The Central Committee of the Party is to be entrusted with the ‘ fullest power and authority, and with far-reaching rights’. 'Iron discipline’ is required of the members. All these demands are founded upon the necessity for an absolutely rmanimous leadership of a revolutionary Party in time of civil war. This form of organization is given the name of ‘democratic centralization’ in view of the fact that the authority of the Central Committee of the Party should rest upon the confidence reposed in it by the members.

   • 2013 March 12, Andrew Jacobs, Patrick Zuo, Shi Da, “Non-Communist Parties Lend China an Air of Pluralism, Without the Mess”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2013, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Largely invisible much of the year, China’s non-Communist parties are thrust to the fore each March for a display of what the official news media calls China’s system of “multiparty cooperation and political consultation.”
     The news conference, held in a gilded meeting room in the Great Hall of the People, is an Orwellian affair, with party leaders referring to the wonders of “democratic centralization,” heaping praise on the Communist Party and then answering fawning questions from the state media.