Summary
Transmission belt is a Marxist–Leninist principle that tries to create an information flow from the communist party to the people and from the people to the communist party in a communist state by creating interlinked institutions. A transmission belt was to be established either in the form of a mass organisation or an officeholder that would link the two, literally working as transmission belts between the party and the masses. These institutions worked under the party's leadership.[1] To take an example, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, were and are transmission belt organisations, but so was also the elected deputies to the highest organ of state power.[2]
The term originates from Vladimir Lenin's speech to the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions, on 30 December 1920.[3]
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Books edit
- Adam, Jan (2016). Why Did the Socialist System Collapse in Central and Eastern European Countries?: The Case of Poland, the Former Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-12879-1.
- Sakwa, Richard (2002). Russian Politics and Society. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-22752-6.
- Simon, Karla W. (2013). Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era". Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976589-8.
Footnotes edit
- ^ Adam 2016, p. 94.
- ^ Sakwa 2002, p. 319; Simon 2013, p. 169.
- ^ Lenin, Vladimir. "The Trade Unions, The Present Situation And Trotsky's Mistakes". Lenin’s Collected Works, 1st English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 32, pages 19-42. Progress Publishers. Retrieved 27 December 2013.