Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people's democratic dictatorship.

对于人民内部,则实行民主制度,人民有言论集会结社等项的自由权。选举权,只给人民,不给反动派。这两方面,对人民内部的民主方面和对反动派的专政方面,互相结合起来,就是人民民主专政。

Original text (Chinese)

Another quote →

More quotes by Mao Zedong

All Mao Zedong quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Mao Zedong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.