Binary scheme of democracy and centralism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Binary scheme of democracy and centralism
by miychi
15 April 2002 21:34 UTC


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1.Binary scheme of democracy and centralism


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Charles: As Lenin was a dialectician, we can be sure that these opposites are to be treated in both their unity and opposition, as you do below. Basically it is a way of relating the masses and their leaders for struggle and for long term operation of the country.

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a correct reading of Lenin $B!G (Js work makes clear that Lenin never made a
binary scheme of democracy and centralism. Lenin speaks about centralization
of leadership by the party, decentralization of responsibility to the local
sections, and obligation of regular reporting and publicizing within the
party as condition to realize them, and centralization of secret function
and specification other functions of movement. as for democracy-inner-party
democracy, he regards it as a condition to realize centralization of
leadership and decentralization of responsibility to local sections, in
other words, as a historical concrete or a variable form.


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CB: Definitely, democratic centralism is to be treated in a historically concrete manner. Thus, the unity of democracy and centralism in the Venezuelan Bolivarian movement is unique.


What do you think of the operation of the principle of democratic centralism in Venezuela as we have learned of the events there ?

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