National democracy (Marxism–Leninism)

National democracy is a Marxist–Leninist theoretical concept that chiefly encompasses three processes: the national liberation struggle, the national democratic revolution and the national democratic state. The first process focuses on the establishment of a state formation through a national liberation struggle. The second process covers the national democratic revolution, how revolutionaries seize power in the newly-independent state. The last process deals with how a national democratic state can transition the society it controls from the pre-capitalist or capitalist mode of production to the socialist mode of production, in a bid to establish a communist state formation known as the socialist state.

National democratic theory has also spawned concepts unique to certain states. For example, the official ideology of the African National Congress in South Africa is the national democratic revolution.