• personalthought381@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    In China the proletariat are the ruling class

    Slightly unrelated but your comment makes me wonder, are they though? The President of China hasn’t changed in ten years and while that in of itself doesn’t imply wrongdoing, China DOES have a one party election system. Can we really call that the rule of the working class, or even a free democracy for that matter?

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      1 year ago

      proletarian dictatorships tend to have long-ruling leaders who are symbols of proletarian power that the masses can concentrate around and trust, because they have proven their allegiance in the revolution. Every proletarian state has had long-serving heads of state.

      Democracy isn’t “when leader changes a bunch”. That just means a volatile system, or a system where the leader doesn’t matter anyway and is just a rotating door.

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The President of China hasn’t changed in ten years

      Germany had the same president for 16 years. Canada had the same one for 9.

      Maximum term limits in the US is eight years

      What the fuck are you talking about? Free democracy is when your leader changes every two years?