The UK’s 99 year imperialist lease was up, thus marking the end of the century of humiliation for the people of Hong Kong. Just yesterday I explained six ways to Sunday how misguided it is to call China autocratic/authoritarian/totalitarian, and why our governments and corporate media consistently tell us that it is that https://lemmy.ml/post/14407407
So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.
This is not news, you say.
Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here’s how they explain it:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
The UK’s 99 year imperialist lease was up, thus marking the end of the century of humiliation for the people of Hong Kong. Just yesterday I explained six ways to Sunday how misguided it is to call China autocratic/authoritarian/totalitarian, and why our governments and corporate media consistently tell us that it is that https://lemmy.ml/post/14407407
It’s a one-party state.
If the majority of the island taking to the streets doesn’t count for anything, pick a better lie.
The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere
Whether a bourgeois democracy has two parties or a thousand, it’s still a democracy of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.
BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.
Ignore what words mean, pound the table.
Attack is not defense.