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What? Communist party power dynamics are similar to ones in a gang - i.e. you have someone from the party who managed to seize power and lots of other top party
by taway_1212 9y ago
What? Communist party power dynamics are similar to ones in a gang - i.e. you have someone from the party who managed to seize power and lots of other top party members silently forming cliques and waiting for you to slip, so that they can deliver the blow. The country's people are only chips in the game, if that (often, rulers are toppled not over their policy but over some bullshit doctrinal dispute).
- ivanhoe 9y agoisn't that how any political party works?
- simonh 9y agoYes, but at the end of the day it's the voters that decide whether you get actual power or not. Imagine if it was the Republican National Committee that appointed the President of the United States. Not just now, but always.
- justicezyx 9y agoVoters decided too in China. Electoral system and people's representatives are about the same level.
- simonh 9y agoMy wife is Chinese. None of my Chinese relatives has ever had a vote for anyone in government.
- justicezyx 9y ago> Electoral system and people's representatives are about the same level. Actually everyone got to vote for people's representatives. Of cuz, no one cars that much, like many people were not bother to vote, so DNC thought their presidency is already in bag, then many decided to actually vote.
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- rout39574 9y agoMore or less; but I think the point is, that by denying the power-struggle dynamic and punishing people who talk about it, communist structures in fact amplify it. So in a democracy, there's all that behind the scenes tussel, but there's also an important aspect of public advocacy and decision testing. None of that in China; the politburo says what it's going to say, and then does what it's going to do.
- justicezyx 9y ago> None of that in China; the politburo says what it's going to say, and then does what it's going to do. Thats not what happened in China. In China government invest heavily in propaganda and mind manipulation, they do not automatically push anything and everyone just follow blindly.
- wazoox 9y agoNothing particular to communists, there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Parties_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Parties_(book)