I’m very fascinated by your comments. I hope you don’t mind if I change the subject, I’d like to learn about China from you.
Earlier you quoted Mao, so I’m guessing you’re a communist. Would you say that China is closer to communism today than it was, say, 30 years ago? And if so, why?
I’ve heard a lot of accusations that China’s current government is state capitalist, in that the state-run means of production are not truly controlled by the workers, because the government doesn’t represent the workers. You said you didn’t even know who the head of state was for a few years, so that makes me worry it’s true that there isn’t a good democracy.
We have that sort of situation here in Australia. In recent years the prime minister has changed so many times that nurses can’t ask dementia patients who the prime minister is anymore. It used to be a standard way of checking for memory loss, but these days even the mentally healthy people can’t remember. Our democracy in Australia is bad because the country is split into different regions that are each represented by a seat in parliament. In order to get into parliament, you have to be popular in one specific area. If 20% of the entire population voted for your party, but they were all spread across the country, you’d get zero seats. We have a multi party system, but only the two big parties win enough seats to affect policy. For those of us who prefer smaller parties, like the socialist party, we’re too spread out to win any seats at all. So we’re not represented in the democracy. What’s the democracy like in China?
I’m very fascinated by your comments. I hope you don’t mind if I change the subject, I’d like to learn about China from you.
Earlier you quoted Mao, so I’m guessing you’re a communist. Would you say that China is closer to communism today than it was, say, 30 years ago? And if so, why?
I’ve heard a lot of accusations that China’s current government is state capitalist, in that the state-run means of production are not truly controlled by the workers, because the government doesn’t represent the workers. You said you didn’t even know who the head of state was for a few years, so that makes me worry it’s true that there isn’t a good democracy.
We have that sort of situation here in Australia. In recent years the prime minister has changed so many times that nurses can’t ask dementia patients who the prime minister is anymore. It used to be a standard way of checking for memory loss, but these days even the mentally healthy people can’t remember. Our democracy in Australia is bad because the country is split into different regions that are each represented by a seat in parliament. In order to get into parliament, you have to be popular in one specific area. If 20% of the entire population voted for your party, but they were all spread across the country, you’d get zero seats. We have a multi party system, but only the two big parties win enough seats to affect policy. For those of us who prefer smaller parties, like the socialist party, we’re too spread out to win any seats at all. So we’re not represented in the democracy. What’s the democracy like in China?