People's democracy (Marxism—Leninism)

People's democracy is an umbrella term in Marxist–Leninist theory that encompasses two processes. The first process focuses on the establishment of a communist state formation known as the people's democratic state through a people's democratic revolution. The second process deals with how the people's democratic state transitions the society it controls from the capitalist mode of production to the socialist mode of production, transforming the state into a socialist state in the process. The people's democratic state is a product of specific base and superstructural relation that change over time. For example, it was believed that the people's democratic state had two superstructural class forms: it was established as a revolutionary-democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry and later transformed into a dictatorship of the proletariat.

The people's democratic state is considered to be a state of the socialist type, but not a socialist state. The unified state power of the supreme state organ of power under the leadership of the ruling communist party is the organisational form of state power, that is, the form of government of these states. Despite this, there were some slight institutional differences between these states.

Laos is the only existing communist state that currently self-designates as a people's democratic state.

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