The People's Republic of China is declared to be a state of the people's democratic dictatorship. The government is supposed to be dictatorial and democratic at the same time. The dictatorial power of the state is used to suppress the reactionaries and counterrevolutionaries who obstruct the progress of the proletarian-socialist revolution, but demtocracy in certain approved forms is granted to the people who are accepted as active forces and supporters of the revolution. The method of dic-
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Theodore Hsi-En Chen (1951) studied this question.