The Korean Social Democratic Party was formed on November 3, 1945 by medium and small entrepreneurs, merchants, handicraftsmen, petty bourgeoisie, some peasants, and Christians, supposedly out of the masses’ purported anti-imperialist, anti-feudal aspirations and demands to eliminate the aftermath of Japanese imperialist military rule and build a (purportedly) new democratic society. Its nominal guiding idea is national social democracy befitting Korea’s historical conditions and national characteristics and its supposed basic political motto is independence, sovereignty, democracy, peace and the defence of human rights. In reality, it is little more than a puppet of the ruling Korean Worker's Party as it is legally bound to accept the leading role of the KWP.
In avoiding the problem of the real character of a revolutionary party, the CPSU defines the revolutionary party as a party in which there is a "faction of workers and peasants" cooperating with factions of the bourgeoisy, all working peacefully together towards their respective goals.
It is impossible to judge a party without a study of the social changes within the compradore bourgeoisy and the bureaucratic class and in the ranks of the national bourgeoisy and the small bourgeoisy.
The Meison party, which wanted to use the Derg to become the leading marxist-leninist party in the country, was obliterated during the second half of 1977 by the men of Menghistu.
With the demise of the Whig party in the election of 1852 and the emergence of the sectional, antislavery Republican party in 1854 (succeeding the Free-Soil party), the Democrats remained the sole national party.
At the Democratic Convention of 1860 the party split, Northern Democrats nominating Douglas, and the Southern Democrats choosing John C. Breckinridge, thus facilitating the victory of Abraham Lincoln.
Although the Democrats retained their solid majorities in Congress (except for the Senate in 1980, 1982, and 1984), the victorious national coalition built by Nixon was sustained by Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 and by George H. Bush in 1988.
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