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TIL: About the 2007 Chinese slave scandal
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Seems like local government. Right?
Government is government, it's all 1 party, right?
There's different levels of government, with people working at different priorities. Even though is a one party system, provinces and local government have kinda independent approaches to govern. For a local officer having slaves could make sense for personal purposes, short term monetary wins, or showing its projects finish faster and cheaper. But for a higher level officer than kind of things wouldn't make sense, can't be big enough to give them a profit, without blowing on their face first. They already control a pseudo slave market, that is stable and accepted, with little resistance.
The top down nature of the authoritarian system allows corruption to flourish at all levels. One cannot pick and choose what parts are true Scotsmen.
You're not wrong.
But it's looking like the alternatives are also fertile ground for corruption, so this doesn't really render an effective criticism.
I don't like a 1-party system. I'd like a 0-party system, but I suspect in practice it'd either behave like a 1 party system or a typical western partisan system where people form voting blocks.
Such a youngster take
Ad hominems are for kiddos
You are a disgrace to the name Makhno.
…no? From my perspective, that's like saying:
When it was really the city, or at most state-level government getting in trouble. I know China isn’t federalized to the extend the US is, and it’s technically true since all govt is CCP, but still.
It sounds like you are implicating national officials when there's no mention in the source.
...no? It sounds like I'm implicating party officials, which is literally the wording I used.
Yeah. Exactly
I’m bristling at this because it’s exactly what Trump does here. Some local official screws up or does something bad, and it’s blown up on Twitter and generalized to all “Democrats.”