Talk:People's republic

message: :It has typically been used by political members of the political right wing to castigate towns for policies they deem beyond the pale or "un-American", by casting their ideological opponents as communists.
I lived in Boston for a long time, surrounded almost exclusively by liberals and socialists. It was from them I heard the term "People's Republic of Cambridge", in a light-hearted jocular way. They seemed to think it was normal usage.
I believe it refers to substantial changes (made within the democratic system) to conform the economic modalities of the community to the socialist ideal. Such measures as rent control come to mind.
I don't think the usage is primarily a dig by conservatives. I listened to 3 or 4 months of Sean Hannity on the radio and can't remember hearing him use the term. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 18:43, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
:In Amherst, several of my teachers used it half-jokingly, to refer to excessive political correctness on the part of the town or the school board, or less commonly, to refer to such incidences as the performance of The Vagina Monologues, which would be unacceptable in most towns.  Generally these teachers did consider themselves "liberals" (with one exception, who never refered to his own politics), and didn't appear to object to the concepts referenced, but were rather old, and did appear to find the goings on in modern Amherst mildly amusing. 
:I think it's more often independents who use it actually, most of the Republicans in the town keep fairly quiet, those who don't use rather more hysterical terms.  One teacher considered himself a "liberal" but was a staunch independent, the others I can think of didn't mention their affiliation.  Regardless, I think it's common to use the term humorously, if one isn't really offended by the goings on but doesn't particularly support them.  --71.192.116.13 01:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political Use of the Expression 

message: In Chinese, the words for "people's republic" (renmin gongheguo 人民共和国) and "republic" (minguo 民国) are practically synonyms.  In fact if you abbreviate "people's republic" in Chinese (a la Chinese language conventions), it becomes "republic" (民国).  To the Chinese speaker, renmin gongheguo (people's republic) is just a wordier term for minguo (republic). 67.39.180.44 22:31, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not just in Chinese... Republic itself is derived from res publica. -- Миборовский 22:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

text: No, renmin gongheguo never abbreviated as minguo.--刻意(Kèyì) 22:37, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 民国 is derived from 人民共和国 via shortening, just like how 美国 comes from 美利坚合众国, 亚洲 comes from 亚细亚, 北大 comes from 北京大学, 台灣高鐵 comes from 台灣高速鐵路 and the "京广" in 京广高速铁路 comes from 北京-广州. Though today 民国 isn't used as an abbreviation for 人民共和国, back in the 1910s it certainly was. The concept of "republic" was a foreign concept, after all, and things tend to have various semantic translations. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 02:00, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Chinese 

message: The article at this point completly lacks the very fundamentals on the meaning of the term. A 'people's republic' or a 'democratic republic' is, in Marxist-Leninist doctrine, not just a state governed by communists, its is a transitory stage towards building socialism. Thus, when the name of Vietnam was changed from 'Democratic Republic of Vietnam' to 'Socialist Republic of Vietnam', this marked a qualitivative development in the analysis of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Likewise, the usage of the term 'People's Republic' denotes that the CP of China does not consider that China has acheived socialism. --12:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree with the anon - my understanding is that Marxist-Leninist doctrine basically envisions a number of steps towards true communism - first you have the bourgeois state - then you have the "democratic republic" or "people's republic" or "people's democracy" which is, theoretically, a popular front type organization where the communist party cooperates with non-communist parties until the time is ready to move to socialism.  Thus, the USSR was a socialist state, where only the CPSU was a legal political party, but the various eastern European satellites were "people's democracies" where the communist party (theoretically) governed in coalition with non-communist parties - like the continued existence of the various non-socialist parties in the East German Volkskammer.  This ought to be clarified if possible. john k (talk) 16:58, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vital info missing 

message: From State and Revolution by Lenin:
"We are in favor of a democratic republic as the best form of state for the proletariat under capitalism. But we have no right to forget that wage slavery is the lot of the people even in the most democratic bourgeois republic. Furthermore, every state is a “special force” for the suppression of the oppressed class. Consequently, every state is not “free” and not a “people's state". Marx and Engels explained this repeatedly to their party comrades in the seventies."
Here, Lenin specifically states after attacking people who use the term "people's state" earlier, that there can never be such thing as a "people's state". It seems weird that the article calls "People's Republic" a Marxist-Leninist term when its usage goes strongly against the philosophy of both Marx and Lenin. Maybe it would be more correct to call it a Stalinist or Maoist term.
129.21.126.46 (talk) 17:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marx and Lenin opposed the idea of a "People's state" 

message: The idea of People's republic" term was born in Hungary in 1918. It was invented by count Mihály Károlyi who was liberal capitalist and extremely wealthy man. In 1919, the communist Hungarian Soviet Republic held the name of "People's republic". After that, it became a fasionable prevalent denomination for communist states.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stubes99 (talk • contribs) 17:13, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The origin of the term 

message: I don't think that "Democratic Republic" shall be redirected here. It don't need to be a socialist republic to take the name 'democratic republic'!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by A young communist (talk • contribs) 13:05, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Democratic'' republics 

message: How is North Korea non-Marxist?65.123.43.130 (talk) 22:35, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Because they have stopped calling themselves that in 1994. Secondly, its hard to fathom how a hereditary system has any connection to Marxism at all considered Marxism is again hereditary anything.. --TIAYN (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Korea 

message: I thought North Korea had removed all references to Marxism–Leninism, but this article classifies the country as a "communist or socialist state". Dustin (talk) 21:06, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Democratic People's Republic of Korea no longer Marxist–Leninist? 

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message: The "Other uses" section covers places (cities, counties etc) that have been informally nicknamed "people's republics" as a result of electing more left-wing representatives than other places have. This does not seem to me very encyclopedic. It also seems rather out of place in an article about forms of national government. It also runs the risk of growing like Topsy as one editor after another adds a newly-nicknamed "people's republic". I suggest that we remove this section from the article. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 16:36, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. This use should be mentioned and illustrated by one or two examples at most, with references in the most reliable sources. It is enough to illustrate the point. It would be useless to try to list all local administrations that have a constituency at the left of their national average. Note that this has been discussed higher on this talk page. Place Clichy (talk) 18:57, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks for your comment. As no opposition to my proposal has been raised in the last four weeks I have removed the "Other uses" section from the article. Polly Tunnel (talk) 17:54, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Other uses" section 

message: I find almost no good sources about this subject. 
Oxford Dictionaries define the term as a title rather than as a common noun or a form of government, however Merriam-Webster defines it as . "Democratic-republican constitution usually mentioning socialism" appears to be original research. – Thjarkur (talk) 22:32, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Term or form of government?

message: I know but Bangladesh’s Full Name contains People’s Republic so It’sleft-wing Abdullah Al Manjur (talk) 13:00, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Left-Wing Bangladesh? 

message: I'm hoping to remove the remaining tags from this article:
(i) The Template:More citations needed at the "Non-Marxist–Leninist people's republics" section. I have added a dozen citations to this section so I am proposing to remove the tag.
(ii) The Template:Original research at the top of the article. It's unclear exactly what is being questioned here. The only Template:Citation needed in the article concerns the clause "Although it initially became associated with populist movements in the 19th century such as the German Völkisch movement and the Narodniks in Russia..." in the lead. I can find no sources confirming this association, though it may be genuine. I suggest that we remove both this clause and the tag.
-- Polly Tunnel (talk) 10:27, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: as no objections have been raised. I have retained the wikilinks from the deleted text in the "See also" section and removed some wikilinks from there that repeat those in the main text (per MOS:NOTSEEALSO). -- Polly Tunnel (talk) 13:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing tags 

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