• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      The communist party is a working class party. What exactly do you think the purpose of a party is? And what do you think class is? You seem confused on each.

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      No just one out of every 14 people, which you may notice is many thousands of times more democratic than any of the western so-called democracies by percentage.

      • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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        So 13 out of 14 people do not belong to the only political coalition (the 8 parties with 700,000 members total don’t really count as “opposition parties”) that is legally allowed in their country?

        In reference to my original post, we agree that authoritarianism is bad and you are arguing the case that China and the CCP is not authoritarian, correct?

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          They seem to be doing a pretty good job

          we agree that authoritarianism is bad

          No. We disagree that “authoritarianism” is a meaningful distinction when every government exists by authority. Might as well call it “badguyism”

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            Why do you believe the “democracy perceptions index”?

            Take a look at their supporters… like Palantir and Microsoft.

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              They have no interest in portraying China positively, when a person or source you mistrust publishes something against their best interest it makes it a lot more likely that it’s true (like the CIA saying the USSR was democratic despite being enemies)

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              Oh, two corporate entities tightly bound up with American imperialism and who therefore have every incentive to lie in the opposite direction?

              Like yeah dude, it’s a Harvard study, of course they’re tangled up in US bourgeoisie shit. If it was a Chinese survey you’d be dismissing it for not being a Harvard study