Sentence examples for needs centralism from inspiring English sources

Democracy in any form, the CPC claims, needs centralism, since without centralism there will be no order.

According to Mao, democratic centralism "is centralized on the basis of democracy and democratic under centralized guidance.

Mr Hu, for all his talk of democracy, stresses the need to uphold the party's tradition of "centralism"—following the leader, with no open dissent.Party bosses can either choose their successors themselves or give the members a say.

"Yes, it was customary to drink at meetings in the Soviet Union, 'democratic centralism' [where binding decisions are made centrally] was also customary, but there was no drunkenness or democratic centralism" at Belavezha, he joked.

Democratic centralism was to remain unchanged, and centralized management of certain sectors were to be retained.

Mao once quipped that democratic centralism was "at once democratic and centralized, with the two seeming opposites of democracy and centralization united in a definite form".

Localism is a direct challenge to the centralism of the SNP who want to control or co-opt every part of Scottish life.

In contrast to Labour's instinctive centralism and authoritarianism, the Lib Dems want to get decision-making out of Westminster and Whitehall, and closer to the people.

A central tenet in the current debate is that centralism is good and fragmentation is bad.

As for localism versus centralism, it's that old conundrum about which is worse: services run by central diktat or by postcode lottery.

That is centralism at work.