Talk:Democratic centralism

message: Most of the information in this article is from Marxist sources.  This does not affect its academic quality or call verifiable facts it contains into question, as there are longtime Marxist traditions in historiography.  Indeed, much of what we know about Communist history comes from Marxist scholarship.  The reader should be aware of the philosophical orientation of the sources, however, and how the selection and presentation of article content may reflect this. .Jessegalebaker (talk) 02:19, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viewpoint 

message: Considering that I'm behind the greatfirewall of china their are good reasons not to be to open about stating the following which I'll do anyway 
WTF!?, this article needs to have the neutrality disputed label[even regardless of the content in this case if it was to be accurate... it seams to be written For party members by party members, I think we can guess what the party stands for..--218.87.69.135 (talk) 06:56, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputing neutrality 

message: The article ought to reflect the fact that there was little democratic about democratic centralism as practiced in the Soviet. Libertas
:Yes, it ought, but not in the way you just did. the proper way would be to explain what is wrong with the term, rather than to throw in opinionated terms "misleading", ironical", etc. This is not the way encyclopedic articles are written. Facts first and foremost. Reverting, sorry. Mikkalai 20:30, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Libertas, do you really understand what other people write? Please explain how did you come to this hypothesis about my opinions.  The question you wrote calls for conflict, not for its resolution. Please quote the place which have lead to think you so, and we shall talk; this would be a proper way of reaching consensus.  Mikkalai 00:49, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: What's your problem? If you are thrown away and you know you are right, ho ahead and make your own party. "Any voting was pretty much for show": it is not a problem of demo cent: it is a problem of cattle-like behavior. If you behave like cattle, you deserve to be treated like cattle. `'Míkka 22:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

text: This is an article about democratic centralism, not democratic centralism in the USSR under Stalin. --Duncan 20:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Democratic? I don't think so 

message: Something isn't working so I couldn't do it myself, but the link to On Democratic Centralism and the Regime by Trotsky is:  
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/xx/democent.htm
The link is wrong in the article --jenlight 12:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link 

message: topic is conspicuous by its absence. As I understand it this is not a principle Stalin gave other that lip service to. Needs to have something on how its incompatible with cult of personality oder. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 20:00, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stalin And 

message: "All Communist countries, were either de jure or de facto single-party states, either de jure or de facto." looks like a bad cut-and-paste. I'd change it to "All Communist countries were either de jure or de facto single-party states." but this page is protected. Thankyou. 145.248.195.1 (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 11:53, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed now. Thanks for drawing this error to the attention of Wikipedia editors. Objectivesea (talk) 21:36, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somebody please edit this then delete this entry 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: >>In some countries, those who voted against the lone candidate on the ballot could face serious reprisals.<<
This needs more explanation. If there is only one candidate then surely there IS no ballot (i.e. it is an uncontested election). -- Picapica (talk) 22:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voting against a lone candidate? 

message: There is no objection, and some scholars also recognize the principle of democratic centralism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lindorx (talk • contribs) 10:47, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  First paragraph 

message: There were some biases present within the article such as usage of the term regime, I have corrected some instances of this usage. --Proletarian Banner (talk) 19:42, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biases 

message: The lede talks about how non-Leninist democratic socialist and social democratic groups have used democratic centralist methods. There is nothing explaining this in the body of article, so it might be interesting to include if somebody has knowledge about this. 4kbw9Df3Tw (talk) 07:10, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section explaining non-Leninist uses of democratic centralism