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Guixiu contends that centralism in democratic centralism refers to the state apparatus, and that democracy in this sense serves to define and legitimize the state in question. This means that centralism represents a correct amount of centralization of state power; it must be qualified by democracy to be genuinely democratic centralism. Without democracy, Wang argues, centralization is nothing more than dictatorship. The essence of democratic centralism, from this perspective, is the fundamental focus on creating

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