Transmission belt

Transmission belt is a Marxist–Leninist principle that tries to create an information flow from the communist party to the people and from the people to the communist party in a communist state by creating interlinked institutions. A transmission belt was to be established either in the form of a mass organisation or an officeholder that would link the two, literally working as transmission belts between the party and the masses. These institutions worked under the party's leadership. To take an example, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, were and are transmission belt organisations, but so was also the elected deputies to the highest organ of state power.

The term originates from Vladimir Lenin's speech to the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions, on 30 December 1920.