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Would you consider modern China to be communist in any practical sense? It seems to be communist in the same way that Russia is democratic.
by matthewmacleod 9y ago
Would you consider modern China to be communist in any practical sense? It seems to be communist in the same way that Russia is democratic.
- pabloski 9y agoYet in Russian elections you have OECD observers and cameras who live streams from the voting booths. Do you have something similar in America?
- dagw 9y agoYet in Russian elections you have OECD observers And those observers conclude things like: the elections "failed to meet many of the commitments and standards that we have. It was not a fair election." and there were "flaws in the secrecy of the vote." "Effectively, we can't say these were fair elections,"
- bzbarsky 9y agoThe last presidential election in the US had both OECD and OAS observers. See http://www.businessinsider.com/international-observers-at-us-presidential-voting-rigged-elections-2016-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/international-observers-at-us... for example. According to that article, there have been OECD observers since 2002, though not many.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoI'm not from America, I'm from the UK, which while not the top of any democratic indexes has objectively fairly free and fair elections.
- wasx 9y agoI would consider the actions of Xi Jingping to be reviving the communist ideology in China. Certain moreso than under Deng Xiaoping