There's a bunch of articles in western press about crack downs on queer communities in China, as well as feminist communities. What's the reality? Is it actually happening? Why?
There's a bunch of articles in western press about crack downs on queer communities in China, as well as feminist communities. What's the reality? Is it actually happening? Why?
democracy = rule of the people, voting is just one way (not necessarily an effective one) by which that rule is exercised
china has a kind of consultative democracy where people are literally asked about what they want and think, and the government runs things based on that - if the local administrator fails to provide, another one is put in his place, and so on
this is far more effectively democratic than voting every X years, as in the latter voters are actually more like consumers ("here's a list of what we're offering, pick one that is closer to what you want") than actual participating citizens ("tell me what you want so we can see a way to provide it")
that said, yea, they actually do vote as well, but just for the legislature
honestly, it's a great mix, not without its flaws obviously, but has worked wonders
edit: also the vast majority (over 70%) of the chinese definitely think 1) democracy is good and 2) they live in a democracy, which are much better stats than what you see in america for instance
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yea i think the chinese experiment is generally fascinating to look at tbh
i mean, even if one is of the opinion that they're revisionists and all, they're the hardest and most complex experiment we've had so far, and we should be taking a closer look at it, even if we end up concluding there were more mistakes than successes
but we're usually just going either like "eww capitalism" or "wow very infrastructure" when it goes far deeper than this