SENTRALIZMI DEMOKRATI, muhimtarin prinsipi sokhti tashkili va faoliyati partiyahoi kommunistiyu korgari; dar davlathoi sosialisti prinsipi tartiboti davlat, sokht va faoliyati organhoi davlati, tashkilothoi jamiyatii mehnatkashon, sistemai idorakunii khojagii khalqro guyand. Prinsipi Sentralizmi demokrati az mohiyati harakati proletari va digargunsozii sosialistii jamiyat barmeoyad; on qismi tarkibii talimoti marksisti-lenini dar borai partiyai sinfi korgar va sokhti davlati sosialisti meboshad.
Sentrazizmi demokrati hamchun prinsipi asosii tashkili partiyahoi revolyusioni va faoliyati onho nakhustin bor az tarafi K. Marks va F. Engels peshnihod shuda bud. Minbad V. I. Lenin prinsiphoi onro takmil dod.
Dar Ustavi qabulkardai Sezdi 2-yumi RSDRP (1903) normahoi leninii hayoti partiyavi zikr shuda budand va dar Ustavi qabulkardai Sezdi 4-umi partiya (1906) navishta shuda bud: tamomi tashkilothoi partiya dar asoshoi sentralizmi demokrati barpo karda meshavand…»
Dar Ustavi KPSS mohiyati prinsiphoi Sentralizmi demokrati chunin bayon shudaand: a) intikhobi budani hamai organhoi rohbarikunandai partiya az poyon to bolo; b) dar sari chand vaqt dar nazdi tashkilothoi partiyavii khud va dar nazdi organhoi boloi hisobot doda istodani organhoi partiyavi; v) Intizomi qatii partiyavi va ba aksariyat itoat kardani aqalliyat; g) baroi organhoi poyoni bechunucharo hatmi budani qarorhoi organhoi boloi; d) kollektiviyat dar kori hamai tashkilotho va organhoi rohbarikunandai partiya va masuliyati shakhsii har kommunist baroi ijroi vazifahoi khud va suporishhoi partiyavi (Ustavi KPSS, D. 1986, s. 13).