people's democracy

British  

noun

1. (in Communist ideology) a country or form of government in transition from bourgeois democracy to socialism. In this stage there is more than one class, the largest being the proletariat, led by the Communist Party, which is therefore the dominant power

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Example Sentences

Marxist writers shunned the word “totalitarian”; Nazi Germany was invariably referred to as “fascist,” while the Soviet Union was a “people’s democracy.”

From Salon

He recovered his composure fairly quickly, as the man was bundled from the hall by security shouting slogans about a people's democracy.

From BBC

She freely admits her hero in the late 1960s was Michael Farrell, a founding member of the People's Democracy movement and the man who went on to write The Orange State, a highly critical history of Northern Ireland.

From BBC

The revisions also referenced what Xi calls “whole-process people’s democracy,” which he claims can deliver democratic results to China without the political freedoms or leadership elections of Western-style democracy.

From Washington Post

Beijing rarely discusses the issue of democracy, but has previously referred to China’s governance arrangements as “whole-process people’s democracy”.

From Reuters