Democratic dictatorship

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Democratic dictatorship is a system where the great majority of the people enjoy democracy, but where a minority who shares other beliefs are forced to take part in democratic projects they are not too fond of. Due to democratic traditions in the society, they are forced to take part in things they do not sanction in order not to interfere with the social solidarity.

In Mao Zedong's China ‘democratic dictatorship’ was where democracy was to extended to ‘the people’, and dictatorial methods were applied to those excluded from the ranks of ‘the people'. ‘The people’ were the members of the four social classes; the working class, the peasantry, the petty bourgeois and the national bourgeois. According to Mao, the people were to enjoy freedom of speech, assembly, and association, they were to have the right to vote and elect their own government which was to exercise the dictatorial methods over the excluded masses.^[1]