People's democratic state

A people's democratic state is a purported base and superstructural relation that a communist state reaches. The base in this case in non-socialist and the class character of the state is normally an alliance of various classes led by the proletariat, which acts as the state's leading ruling class. Currently, only Laos practices this class system. According to Its constitution, Laos is a people's democratic state where "all powers are of the people, by the people and for the interests of the multi-ethnic people of all strata in society, with workers, farmers, and intellectuals as key components." The communist states of the Eastern Bloc (bar the Soviet Union) were also established as people's democracies. In Czechoslovakia's case, this meant, according to Klement Gottwald, that the working class "governs, along with the mass of the peasantry, the urban middle classes, the working intelligentsia and a part of the Czech and Slovak bourgeoisie; the government's direction, the government's line of policy, is therefore determined, not by large capital as earlier, but by the working class and the working people, headed by the Communist Party."

People's democratic class systems were established in a number of European and Asian countries as a result of the people's democratic revolutions of the 1940s.