Four basic principles
The four basic principles for the development of China ( Chinese 四项基本原则 ) is a political doctrine that of Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s , were set up for economic reforms to enable, but narrow political reforms.
The Four Basic Principles state that the People's Republic of China is based on
- the socialist way
- under the leadership of the Communist Party
- based on Marxism-Leninism and Mao-Zedong thinking and
- based on the dictatorship of the proletariat
should develop.
To this day, the Four Basic Principles are an important basis for political argumentation in the People's Republic of China.
literature
- Michael NG-Quinn : Deng Xiaoping's Political Reform and Political Order . Asian Survey, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 1187-1205, University of California Press, December 1982, accessed April 11, 2013 at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2644047