Comment on Putin too, for some reason
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 52 minutes agoNot sure if you were being sarcastic, but I think communist societies do have thier own conception of democracy… It’s very complicated though (from what I can tell).
Having lived under Capitalism my whole life, I feel under cooked on this myself. I couldn’t tell you much other than I know the Chinese have the five year Plenary session, opposition parties within the communism party, and systems of local provential governments that compete on resolving social problems.
Vietnam has a shit load of unions.
So there’s mass participation in these systems… Maybe that’s part of why they’re still around.
copingwithelmons@lemmy.world 38 minutes ago
To be fair parties themselves aren’t monoliths. I like Hu jintao’s politics a lot more than I like Xi pings. But as far I’ve seen with any communist state, they’ve always banned other parties defacto or dejure. And they did in the initial years not recently.
USSR, PRC, PRV, DPRK.
Having multiple parties allows for two important things: accountability and representation. Despite me disagreeing with someone’s politics I’d still want them to have some sort of representation. But it’s accountability that matters more to me.
The aforementioned governments do have accountability in whether the keys of power and people support them or not. But it’s a far less direct form than in an actual democracy and usually very proportionally disbalanced in the favor of the keys (ministers, army, or corporations).
But this is from my own rudimentary understanding of how it.