Single Party System Quotes

Unlike Marxism, the Leninist one-party state is not a philosophy. It is a mechanism for holding power. It works because it clearly defines who gets to be the elite - the political elite, the cultural elite, the financial elite.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a "dictator" substitutes himself for the central committee.

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

There is no real public opinion in Communist countries. They are ruled by an oligarchy.

For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.

The Russian tactic is the tactic of authoritarian organization. It has been so consistently developed and in the end carried to extremes, by the Bolsheviks to the fundamental principle of centralism that it has led to over centralism.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

Instead of providing a model for democracy, Turkey's leader represents a throwback: an elected autocrat, tolerated by the West for maintaining a certain stability within and without, overseeing a procedural democracy with a pliant press and a dominent political party that serves only his wishes.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

The longevity of the Fascist regime can well be measured by the stability and consistency of the norm which has become its central idea: that is, the negation of classes and of class struggles, even the negation of political parties, because every human being and every spiritual force in the country must be entirely subservient to the nation-state, which in its turn is interpreted exclusively by Fascism.

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.

When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position...

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

Remember that the Communist Party is a meritocracy in China.