• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      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

      The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.

      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.

      Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.