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Woke, Mao, and the American Cultural Revolution

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The Dialectical Synthesis of Democracy and Centralism

"Democracy as such sometimes seems to be an end, but it is in fact only a means," he says. "Within the ranks of the people, democracy is correlative with centralism." He adds that you can't have democracy without central power and freedom without discipline. 'We cannot do without democracy, nor can we do without centralism'

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