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[-] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

Why does that exclude the Chinese government from being authoritarian?

[-] yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

China is authoritarian just like every other state in the world. Except that it's also a whole-process people's democracy unlike the W🤮st

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 6 days ago

@yet_another_commie

> just like every other state in the world

Really? Let's talk about Tiananmen Square. Or how about Uyghurs. Let's use a picture of Winnie the Pooh. Is it really "just like" every other state? I'd say it's a little bit above the average. People's democracy my ass. Just because trump turned USA authoritarian didn't make China less authoritarian.

[-] yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Ok, let's talk. Trump never really changed anything about "authoritarianism". Every single state is by nature authoritarian. Where in the West do you see a democracy? Almost all media in the US is controlled by 6 corporations. What kind of democratic process can there be if the only candidates that get mainstream attention are Trump and controlled opposition (Kamala)?

Again, here's some Chad Lenin:

It is sheer mockery of the working and exploited people to speak of pure democracy, of democracy in general, of equality, freedom and universal rights when the workers and all working people are ill-fed, ill-clad, ruined and worn out, not only as a result of capitalist wage slavery, but as a consequence of four years of predatory war, while the capitalists and profiteers remain in possession of the "property" usurped by them and the "ready-made" apparatus of state power. This is tantamount to trampling on the basic truths of Marxism which has taught the workers: you must take advantage of bourgeois democracy which, compared with feudalism, represents a great historical advance, but not for one minute must you forget the bourgeois character of this "democracy", it's historical conditional and limited character. Never share the "superstitious belief" in the "state" and never forget that the state even in the most democratic republic, and not only in a monarchy, is simply a machine for the suppression of one class by another.

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