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[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml -2 points 7 months ago

Worse than what form of democracy exactly?

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

Everything else people have mentioned in the comments. Proletarian democracy, democratic centralism, participatory democracy, etc.

Well, the first two are really just a way of saying socialism.

[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml -4 points 7 months ago

Democratic centrism is more of a rule or process or principle. It isn’t even a form of government and it’s compatible with many forms of government.

Proletarian democracy isn’t well defined so I can’t say anything since it means 1000 different things to 1000 different people and often does include representative democracy.

Participatory democracy similarly is a spectrum and is compatible with representative democracy.

So to actually talk about this you would need to be more specific about how the “better” form of government would work.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago
[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml -4 points 7 months ago

Name one. One actually concrete form of democracy that would work better.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Whatever its called that cuba does where national representation is organized and chosen at the local level. Idk im not a political scientist.

But also name ten that are worse

[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml -5 points 7 months ago

Bu what metric does that system work though? It’s hard to judge it because the info is all unreliable and the government doesn’t share data. We don’t know how bad or good wealth inequality is there.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

I answered your question but you didn't answer mine.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

By what metric does the US system work?

[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago

Standard of living is relatively high in the U.S.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Is that because of bourgeois representative democracy, or because of the imperialist exploitation of the global south?

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How do you define "working"? Otherwise I don't know how you're measuring it. Would you say that a system that allows for literally one of the most unpopular genocides in history is "working"? Or a system that is working overtime to increase income and wealth disparity rather than reduce it? Is that working? I certainly wouldn't but I'm guessing you think that's working swell

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