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And was those genuine changes of government, you think? Or just a new face on the same old one? Anyway, that's one way Popper's definition is insufficient. Dem
by vintermann 10y ago
And was those genuine changes of government, you think? Or just a new face on the same old one?
Anyway, that's one way Popper's definition is insufficient. Democracy is not just about whether a government can be replaced, but about how different the government we replace it with can actually be. Replacing a government isn't worth much if what you can replace it with is functionally identical in every way.
- sebastianconcpt 10y agoFor the screwed up constitution that Castro established it was perfectly genuine and legal. You have to remember that everything that was done in Nazi Germany was legal. Being legal or coming from the State is orthogonal (means nothing) to being moral.
- vintermann 10y agoI said nothing about legal or not. By genuine I meant just that - was it a genuine change of government, in the sense that policies changed in meaningful ways? If not, then I still call these countries non-democratic.