民主集中制是无产阶级革命政党组织建立的指导原则,在社会主义国家里,同时也是国家机关、国家政权和劳动人民社会组织的指导原则,是国家管理与经济管理的制度。民主集中制原则是马克思列宁主义关于工人阶级政党和社会主义国家的社会机构的学说的基本部分。如果说在阶级对抗社会里,民主与集中是对立的,经常处于冲突之中,那么,在社会主义条件下,它们就成 Democratic centralism is the guiding principle for the establishment of a proletarian revolutionary party organization. In the socialist countries, it is also the guiding principle of state organs, state power and working people’s social organizations, and is the system of state management and economic management. The principle of democratic centralism is an essential part of the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism about the social institutions of the working-class parties and the socialist countries. If we say that in a class antagonistic society, democracy and concentration are antitheses and are often in conflict, then under socialism they become