Fraternal Party: Literally, 'brother party'. Refers to a political party officially affiliated with another, often larger and/or international, political party or governmental party. A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... A government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. ...
In The Sixties, Communist parties in charge of states often had fraternal parties in other countries than the one(s) in which they resided. A major example was the Communist Party of China, which exercised enormous influence over the New Left and New Communist Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In The Modern History Sourcebook, there is a 1964 statement by the Romanian Workers' Party in which they caution, "In discussing and confronting different points of view on problems concerning the revolutionary struggle or socialist construction, no party must label as anti-Marxist, anti-Leninist the fraternal party whose opinions it does not share." (1) Woodstock: the iconic Sixties event The Sixties in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969 (see: 1960s), but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past 20 years. ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical philosophy based on Marxism. ... A Communist state is a term for a nation-state governed by a single political party which declares its allegiance to the principles of Marxism-Leninism. ... The Communist Party of China (CPC) or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (Simplified Chinese: ä¸å›½å…±äº§å…š; Traditional Chinese: ä¸åœ‹å…±ç”£é»¨; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is the ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. ... The New Communist Movement (NCM) was a leftist political movement of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... The Romanian Communist Party (Romanian: Partidul Comunist Român) was a Communist political party in Romania until 1989. ...
It was the subsidized fraternalparty to China for a while, but broke that relationship in 1967 and reacted particularly harshly to the news of Mao meeting with Nixon in 1972, denouncing Mao as revisionist.
Critics in the party at that time generally maintain that that up through the early 1970s the PLP was only moderately authoritarian in its internal functioning and did not attempt to overly control the lives of its members.
Later, they say, the degree of open discussion and dissent in the party declined somewhat, but overall the party never developed a reputation among activists or the general public as a political cult and was never accused of "brainwashing" anyone.
In The Sixties, Communist parties in charge of states often had fraternalparties in other countries than the one(s) in which they resided.
A major example was the Communist Party of China, which exercised enormous influence over the New Left and New Communist Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
In The Modern History Sourcebook, there is a 1964 statement by the Romanian Workers' Party in which they caution, "In discussing and confronting different points of view on problems concerning the revolutionary struggle or socialist construction, no party must label as anti-Marxist, anti-Leninist the fraternalparty whose opinions it does not share." (1)
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