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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I thought china was just another dictatorship?

    Not true at all. I recommend learning how China's system of democracy is actually structured, you will have heard the mindless repetition of "it's a dictatorship" by liberals and the media forever but absolutely none of them will have taught you how any of China's system is actually structured.

    China's system was fundamentally inherited from the Soviet Union and then adapted with further changes. It is very similar to soviet democracy.

    In essence, elections are held at a local level for a worker's council. The members of that worker's council then elect a candidate to represent the council at the next tier up, and then the members of that council elect a candidate to represent them at the next tier up. This continues for many tiers all the way up to the national congress and are highly meritocratic based on the actual results that representatives produce. Every person at the top has climbed through these tiers from the very bottom working at the local level to improve the people's lives.

    All of this is fundamentally kept from people when anything about China is brought up because any actual understanding of the system and how it functions cuts through the ability to frame it as evil.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Ye, that particular article is useful but has been getting progressively worse over the last couple years. In particular it's useful as it dispels the myth many seem to believe that there's no elections at all. People have fundamentally NO knowledge whatsoever what the system is and getting your foot in the door of these people often involves using something that they trust already, for a lot of them that's libpedia.

        You never responded to me the other day in our fascism discussion btw :<

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Most people don't even know how their local township is run, let alone a foreign government.