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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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are you saying there’s no oligarchy in China, Russia, North Korea, etc?
Russia yes since the dissolution of the USSR, DPRK and PRC no, the working classes control the states of the latter 2. In China, they have direct elections for local representatives, which elect further "rungs," laddering to the top. The top then has mass polling and opinion gathering. This combination of top-down and bottom-up democracy ensures effective results. For more on this, see Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance. This system is remarkably effective, resulting in over 90% approval rates.
From the same book, for the DPRK:
I highly recommend the book, it helps shed light on some often misunderstood mechanisms in socialist democracy, including the directly addressed fact that the DPRK's voting process includes single candidate approval voting. Without the context of the candidate selection process, this is spun as entirely anti-democratic.
Lighthearted comment: Does the topic come up so often that you have created your own copy-pasta? :D
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I have a full-time job, a family, and hobbies, activist work, etc. to balance, so Lemmy is usually something I do when I have a few minutes of nothing else.
As an example, this comment is brand-new, while this comment is a modified version of an earlier effort-post I made.