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> By ceding economic power to the public to kickstart their economy, authoritarian regimes would be ceding political power. China has figured it out so it's cl
by tomp 3y ago
> By ceding economic power to the public to kickstart their economy, authoritarian regimes would be ceding political power.
China has figured it out so it's clearly possible.
Something like:
- strict one-party rule
- tight competition and selection process for leading party members (i.e. to become "president" you first have to successfully lead a city/province etc.)
- totalitarian speech control
- public "disappearances" of non-desirables to scare the rest of wannabe dissidents
- encourage economic growth, independence, entrepreneurship
- make "economic growth" one of the main political promises of your one-party totalitarian rule
- control economy only at the top (e.g. by disappearing entrepreneurs that become too powerful), laissez-faire otherwise
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> tight competition and selection process for leading party members This worked until it didn’t. Now Xi is a dictator making dictator-like mistakes. There are valid additions to political thought the CCP has brought. But its solution to executive power is little evolved from the Roman monarchy. It counts on a serious of rationally-chosen benevolent autocrats who each pinky promise not to abolish term limits. It works until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, it fails spectacularly.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago> on a serious of...benefactors... Auto-correct is cancer
- realusername 3y ago> China has figured it out so it's clearly possible. They did not figure it out completely as seen during the disastrous economic policies during covid. There's only a single developed dictatorship on earth, it's Singapore and it's still a debate if it's possible to achieve the same results outside of a city state.