I don’t know how much you can trust the narrative when the media is all state controlled and anti-party speech is at best minimized, at worst censored. Total state control of the narrative is not conducive to free and fair elections, not to mention a police state. Before you whatabout, I’m well aware that the US is a police state and is controlled by two parties of neo-libs. I’m no supporter of the US, but I’m also no supporter of any autocratic regime. Calling the PRC a fair democracy is at best willfully ignoring the extreme state control over information, at worst denying a tyrannic despot twisting socialism into an autocratic, capitalist dictatorship while silencing opposition.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yes, hence why the CPC has overwhelming support. When they don’t do what the people want, you get protests and elected officials getting unelected.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Protests like in Tiananmen Square?
NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Deng Xiaoping literally stepped down after this.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re saying he stepped down because of this, yet others are saying nothing happened?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Still doesn’t make protest an low threshold way of political participation
erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I don’t know how much you can trust the narrative when the media is all state controlled and anti-party speech is at best minimized, at worst censored. Total state control of the narrative is not conducive to free and fair elections, not to mention a police state. Before you whatabout, I’m well aware that the US is a police state and is controlled by two parties of neo-libs. I’m no supporter of the US, but I’m also no supporter of any autocratic regime. Calling the PRC a fair democracy is at best willfully ignoring the extreme state control over information, at worst denying a tyrannic despot twisting socialism into an autocratic, capitalist dictatorship while silencing opposition.