PRINCIPLE OF COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700190015-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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PRINCIPLE OF COLLECTIVE LEADER.9HIP IPI RIRWI4IA
~ivnbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.)
The Rurn~?urian Workers' Party is the force which rui.dcs and lead. the peo-
ple on the road to socialism. It performs this test, successfully b?enure it
acts r~s a united collective, welded by unity oC will and action and by the
unity of discipline, and because it unyieldin_nly represses any deviation from
the party line or Ley lack of discipline or orgy^ization.
The Harty, true to Nu.~xist-Leninte.t. principles, sees to it that the prin-
ciple of collective work, the higfrest principle of party leadership, is strictly
pnrtycto adoptlthesrbghtcnolicysandctormobilizcoparty orranizations,band throu:,h
them mobilize the passes of workin7 n~e,1,, to reply this policy, Correct decisions,
the timely correction oC error: in woe]:, correction of deviations from Harty
policy, and the prompt unr~asY.in,~ of energy tools c; n only be ensured w}lcn prob-
lems are discussed collecti?rcly on the br.sis of criticism r_nd self-criticism.
Collective leadership is very imno.-ts.,t for t!:e educctiion of the cadre,
for it enables new and young forces devotee to ::ocia.'.ism .nd full of creative
spirit to rise to positions of leadership. Collective leadershiu also ensures
systematic and rigct?ous control over every party and gover~;ent activist.
The Party is a freely accepted fighting ussociatioa of communist,, who
share the same ideas aad have united to mnke a reality a their grandiose aim
of building Communism. Tha is why, in the party, the right of decision be-
longs to tl.e mess of nei?t.y rnembers and g::rty leadership is colhctive, not a
one-man job.
Collective lendership flows logically from the principle of democratic
centralism iAa ch produces the correct L'lend of centralism and iron discipline,
with greet latitude for initiative and activity on the Hart of Communists.
The decision of the c'enum of the Central Committee concerning the im-
provement of party work and the strengthening; of the party's t'es with the
masses is of great importance in this connection. It has laid great stress
on the need to improve collective ler:dershin end has brought to littht serious
deficiencies that still persist in that field. The Central Committee her also
taken a series of practical steps to bro^_den internal party clomps r cy and to
activate Party members. It has directc~ ail orgunl::ations to apply the prin-
ciple of collective leadership or, an rvcr_increns:ir. scene.
Collective leadership is mainly achieved by collective formulaticn of
decisions. The l:ai~y statutes prov_dc that or-;;;nizations and organs shall
make decisions only after detailed discussion ^.t meetings of raion, city, .?+nri
regiune per-t;~r burenus and comr,:ittees, or :ct r..e~~tings of _rrirary organizations.^,ome
Party organs hsve nlrendy begun to imtsovc collective leadership. The bureau
of the Baia A1are Rer.,.iune Committee, for instance, prop