HIST 2P66 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vanguardism, Proletariat, British Turks
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Academics were happy with this change and upheld communist change. The political system: people"s democratic dictatorship ( people vs. reactionaries ) Landlords: the ccp as sole governing party. Other parties could make suggestions and propose ideas, but they could not act as the ruling class. Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that frames capitalism through a paradigm of exploitation, analyzes class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation. Leninism is the political theory for the organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party and the achievement of a dictatorship of the proletariat, as political prelude to the establishment of socialism. Maoism the communist doctrines of mao zedong as formerly practiced in china, having as a central idea permanent revolution and stressing the importance of the peasantry, of small-scale industry, and of agricultural collectivization. When government officials retire they get free medical care.
