Revolutionary People's Party (Dhram Phá)

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The Revolutionary People's Party of Dhram Phá, commonly known as the Communist party, is the ruling party in the socialist one-party state Dhram Phá (see: Politics of Dhram Phá). The party grew out a communist resistance movement that took control of the country during the Second World War.

Within the party there are four overlapping factions:

  • a pragmatic and pro-Chinese faction;
  • a pragmatic and nationalist (moderately anti-Chinese) faction;
  • an ideological faction; consisting of rather orthodox Marxists;
  • a reformist faction; striving for (minimal) economic and/or political reform.

These factions are 'overlapping' in the sense that many members can be said to belong to two factions, although the combination of the first and second is obviously impossible.

The first of these factions is traditionally the strongest faction, but in decline since the 1990s (as is the ideological faction), while the fourth is gradually gaining strength since the end of the 1990s. The current party chairman, sNiam Qhuat is generally considered to be a moderate reformer and moderate nationalist. His predecessor, hPáks Thám, belonged to the pro-Chinese faction. There has never been a chairman that can be unambiguously identified as belonging to the ideological faction.

Sometimes a fifth faction is distinguished that is influenced by Dhramphanese Buddhism. However, his faction - if it exists - overlaps with all others, and does not have any defining points of view. Rather, in all four of the aforementioned factions, there are members that take some inspiration from Buddhism. Perhaps this tendency is strongest in the reformist faction, which for that reason, has the closest ties to the Buddhist clergy of Dhram Phá.