• robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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              1 year ago

              communist party of china is the preferred nomenclature, communist parties are usually “communist” first and whatever nation state second, see see pee is a western invention, maybe to scare boomers by reminding them of the CCCP but i’m not sure we have a memo or leak about why the switch was made.

              people have mentioned older coverage when china was not the big scary enemy where capitalist media referred to the cpc correctly, but i don’t have arbitrary 1990s newspaper articles at hand.

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                  1 year ago

                  presumably how their legislators and executives get their jobs, and who gets to vote would make china a democracy or not?

                  do you know whether they have elections or how they are held? do you know how proposed laws are considered and declined or instituted? or do you just hear “one party state” and make a pile of assumptions?

                  ancient athens, the american representative republic, westminster derived parliamentary systems, and school textbook direct democracy aren’t the only forms democracy can take, and frankly those systems (except for the school book one that isn’t used to run any countries) all have huge flaws and failings, and could fairly be called “not actually democracies” if we look at public opinion polling compared to what public policy is actually made.