People’s Democracy

People’s democracy is practiced in socialist regimes called people’s republics, e.g., People’s Republic of China, People’s Republic of North Korea, etc. Based on the organisation of communist or socialist party and Lenin’s democratic centralism, people’s democracy is based on elected deputies from amongst the party leaders and workers. Generally, it does allow multi-partyism because as the nomenclature sounds, people’s representation cannot be fragmented, as there is no class distinction. There is no need for multiple parties as there is no contradiction in the interest of the people in the form of class. Marx’s and Lenin’s concept of dictatorship of the proletariat after the revolution however, may not be a full people’s democracy.