• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    I will never, ever trust a one-party government

    It depends on the party. Being able to pick from of a dozen different parties of capital is no different from picking from a dozen brands of peanut butter that came out of the same factory.

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      8 hours ago

      No single party won’t eventually turn into a mess. Authoritarianism is never going to end well for the population.

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        7 hours ago

        Depends on how democratic the mechanisms of the party is. Cuba’s party has only become more democratic as time has gone on, and resulted in better outcomes for the people and enshrining gay rights in a constitutional referendum, which passed with 90%+ in favor. China’s party has certainly became more democratic than in the 2000s when politicians were openly controlled by business.

        It’s not useful to analyze parties and states in a vacuum independent of each other, the ultimate proof of how democratic a system is is whether its results favor the people or capital.

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          7 hours ago

          Yea when one of the “became more democratic” also involve persecution and incarceration of ethnic groups, it has failed. Again, authoritarianism doesn’t work. You may have stints where it seems okay from the outside but it won’t end in the favor of the people.

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            32 minutes ago

            No system that challenges Western hegemony could ever “work” so long as your perspective is grounded in its propaganda.