The Soviet Communist Party (1986) provides a concise and accessible description, analysis and assessment of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its place in the Soviet political system. It covers the Party's structures, membership, personnel and functions, and relations with the state institutions.
The issues related to the provision of political, financial and organizational assistance by the Soviet Russia (the Soviet Union) to the Communist Party of China during its formation and in the first ten years of the civil war with the Kuomintang are considered in this article.
This article aims to shed light on the problem of Confucianism's role in strengthening the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. After 40 years of economic reform, contemporary China is by and large functioning as a quasi-capitalist state, however, due to the lack of protection of the labour class, the conflicts between the workers and their employers have created a legitimacy crisis for China's authoritarian regime and forced it to seek alternative means to strengthening its legitimacy apart from its orthodox communism ideology and the coercive measures. In this article, the researchers try to answer the abovementioned question by examining the correlation between the coverage of Confucianism (the frequency of messages related to Confucian ideas) in the Chinese Communist Party's biggest state-owned newspaper People's Daily and how Chinese people acknowledge the regime as rightful, which is expressed via Chinese labour protest levels. The vector autoregressive (VAR) modelling results revealed that in the period between 2011 and 2019, the Chinese Communist Party used Confucianism as one of the instruments to build and strengthen the regime's legitimacy whereby it can pacify the dissatisfaction of the labour class. Further, considering that many authoritarian regimes shared a similar approach of using the dominant religion or culture to enhance their legitimacy during crises, the findings of this research could also open a new avenue for further comparative studies on these authoritarian regimes' discrepancies using the same approach.
Abstract The Communist Party of Malaya (cpm) evolved under the impact of the Cold War. Considering that the cpm was a left-wing political party that had a significant impact on many areas of Malaysia, this study tries to identify and investigate the causes of the cpm's inability to win the political fight from 1948 to 1989. Both domestic and internal party issues, along with the Cold War scenario, were a significant component that could not be neglected by the researchers.
In 2019, Chile was struck by an uprising that shook its political structure to the core. Mobilization was so overwhelming that political elites decided—against what they had defended vigorously during past decades—to allow for a comprehensive reform of the Constitution enacted in 1980. Because constitutions allocate decision rights and define their political system as they do so, the process reopened the debate regarding the country's imbalanced presidential design. This article contributes to the debate on checks and balances in the Chilean political system by examining a specific procedure that promotes imbalance: the urgency prerogative.
A distinctive feature of 21st-century constitution making is the role assigned to citizens through various forms of direct participation, as well as special efforts to include groups underrepresented and marginalized in ordinary politics. The legitimacy of these processes increasingly requires a role for actors and groups previously excluded from crucial institutional decisions (Elster 1998; Fishkin 2011; Reuchamps and Welp 2023; Rubio-Marín 2020; Welp and Soto 2020). However, vested interests have proven challenging to overcome amid a global crisis of representation. The failed Chilean process of 2021–2022 provides valuable lessons about the triumphs and pitfalls of embracing an open approach to constitution making.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Part I : The Workers' Way to Freedom -- Chapter 1: Capitalism -- Chapter 2 The Power of the Classes -- Chapter 3: Trade Unionism -- Chapter 4: The Political Fight and Social Democracy -- Chapter 5: The Russian Revolution -- Chapter 6: The Communist Party -- Chapter 7: Fascism -- Chapter 8: The Intellectual Class -- Chapter 9: The Workers' Revolution -- Chapter 10: The Workers' Councils -- Part II: Other Council Communist Writings (1936-54) -- Chapter 11: The Party and the Working Class -- Chapter 12: State Capitalism and Dictatorship -- Chapter 13: Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy -- Chapter 14: General Remarks on the Question of Organization -- Chapter 15: Marx and Utopia-Party and Class -- Chapter 16: The Failure of the Working Class -- Chapter 17: Public Ownership and Common Ownership -- Chapter 18: Marx and Bakunin -- Chapter 19: Some Remarks on Parliamentarism -- Chapter 20: On Workers' Councils -- Chapter 21: The Need for the Workers to Lead Themselves -- Appendix A: Anton Pannekoek by Paul Mattick -- Appendix B: Article Versions of Manuscript Chapters -- The Intellectuals -- Trade Unionism -- Workers' Councils -- The Power of the Classes -- On the Communist Party -- The Role of Fascism -- Index -- About the Author and Editor.
"As one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Dazhao (1889-1927) was a key figure in China's transition from empire to republic, from tradition to modernity, and from imperial rule to turbulent revolution. Patrick Fuliang Shan's biography of Li, the first English-language study in over half a century, draws on a wealth of Chinese-language primary and secondary sources to examine Li's early life, family, education, and career; his endeavors to introduce Western civilization to the Chinese; his switch to communism and his leadership role in the early Communist movement; his political maneuvers and revolutionary activities; and his tragic death in the hand of the warlord Zhang Zuolin. While its focus is on Li's personal odyssey and extraordinary journey, the book also presents an in-depth analysis of China's broad national experience and its march towards modernity"--
This book presents a candidate-based approach to party evolution, conceptualizing candidates as 'party genes' that ultimately decide what a party does and what it stands for. It draws on extensive new data from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to show that candidate change is linked to changes in party organization, programmes, and leadership.