On Deng Xiaoping's Thought of People's Democratic Dictatorship

Author: Editorial Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, "On Deng Xiaoping's Thought of People's Democratic Dictatorship"
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book studies and elaborates on Deng Xiaoping's thought of people's democratic dictatorship by examining its integral, inherent, and inevitable connection with the entire socialist cause. The book consists of eleven chapters. First, it conducts a comprehensive study of Deng Xiaoping's thought of people's democratic dictatorship, exploring its relationship with the theories of the dictatorship of the proletariat in Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought in terms of inheritance and development, its position and significance in the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, the historical laws it reflects, its fundamental connotations, and the theoretical relationships between its intrinsic basic categories. Subsequently, it discusses the relationship between people's democratic dictatorship and socialist modernization construction, social stability, class struggle, spiritual civilization construction, the development of socialist democracy, the strengthening of socialist rule of law, the reinforcement of the state machinery, as well as its fundamental relationships with the Party's leadership and the masses. We see that Comrade Deng Xiaoping, in his theoretical generalizations on these fundamental relationships, drew on China's specific conditions to propose many new insights and made significant contributions. Only by understanding Deng Xiaoping's thought of people's democratic dictatorship in a complete and scientific manner can one correctly and comprehensively grasp its theoretical system.