China is a very functional central democracy. It's a very different system than the representative or parliamentary democracies we're used to, but it's still very much a democracy.
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Democratic Centralism is a sort of many perspectives under 1 umbrella sort of system. There's 1 party, but that 1 party is made up of elected representatives from multiple different cultures and areas, making 1 party with wide and various perspectives and preventing party politicking.
Democratic Centralism was the system in the Soviet Union but it is not in and of itself communism. Communism is a much broader structural and economic change from basically anything we currently have. It's also not a spin, it's literally what the system is called.
The wiki starts by stating it is used by communist countries. This is like telling me that North Korea is democratic because its name is Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
"What the leadership seeks is for the world to stop assessing China based on its progress toward a liberal democracy, but instead to acknowledge that China also has a legitimate system that aims to improve the well-being of people." That's the line it ends on.
I know you've been propagandized to see any other form of governance as illegitimate by neo-liberal thought leaders and western propaganda, but other systems can and do exist and can and do work.
Its actual flaw is that since there's really no party, it can get locked up in burocracy as the party debates course among itself, and frequently votes need a 60% majority to go through.
I guess it’s too bad that it’s not a real democracy that can have another party replace it. Because it’s a communist state.
Also, there’s a party and it’s called the CCP. Don’t pretend it’s a no-party state.
I’m engaging in good faith. I’m being asked to believe something is one thing when it’s actually something else. I’m reading what I believe is spin. I’m expected to believe China’s one party system is on par with Nunavut’s no-party legislature. The two are not the same
Effectively with one party there is no party. The party is just the government. Due to the way democratic centralism works, if the people wanted a new party, they could elect representatives that opposed the direction the party was going and that would change it into a new party.
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Also, there’s a party and it’s called the CCP. Don’t pretend it’s a no-party state.