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I don't know much about Chinese democracy, but I what Andre Vltchek says about our democracy is true: there isn't one. Eventually, some outsider, like Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders, might beat the system and get voted in, but the oligarchs - our overlords - will snooker their policies as usual. But now let’s talk about democracy. First of all, the expression democracy is derived from Greek language. It loosely means ‘rule of the people’. It doesn’t stipulate that a truly democratic country has to follow a Western multi-party/corporate model, or more concretely, a model in which big corporations and ‘powerful individuals’ are financing political campaigns (while backing the candidates), and de facto selecting the governments. In the West, and in its ‘client states’, most of the
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I don't know much about Chinese democracy, but I what Andre Vltchek says about our democracy is true: there isn't one. Eventually, some outsider, like Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders, might beat the system and get voted in, but the oligarchs - our overlords - will snooker their policies as usual. But now let’s talk about democracy. First of all, the expression democracy is derived from Greek language. It loosely means ‘rule of the people’. It doesn’t stipulate that a truly democratic country has to follow a Western multi-party/corporate model, or more concretely, a model in which big corporations and ‘powerful individuals’ are financing political campaigns (while backing the candidates), and de facto selecting the governments. In the West, and in its ‘client states’, most of the
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I don't know much about Chinese democracy, but I what Andre Vltchek says about our democracy is true: there isn't one. Eventually, some outsider, like Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders, might beat the system and get voted in, but the oligarchs - our overlords - will snooker their policies as usual.
But now let’s talk about democracy.
First of all, the expression democracy is derived from Greek language. It loosely means ‘rule of the people’. It doesn’t stipulate that a truly democratic country has to follow a Western multi-party/corporate model, or more concretely, a model in which big corporations and ‘powerful individuals’ are financing political campaigns (while backing the candidates), and de facto selecting the governments.
In the West, and in its ‘client states’, most of the ordinary people are destined to serve the corporate interests, and the government is there to make sure that they do not break ‘the rules’.
China simply cannot follow such model. Chinese people fought hard for their independence, they struggled during the great revolutionary war, and all this in order to create a system which would be serving the people. After great sacrifices, people of China achieved their goal. The system is theirs, it exists in order to improve their lives. It is not perfect, far from it, but it is rapidly evolving into perhaps the most humane system on our Planet.
Chinese corporations are there to serve the people, to serve the nation, and they are told what to do and how to behave by the government and by the Communist Party, not the other way around. Again, it is not as simple as that, and there are problems and setbacks and corruption, but the country is marching forward, irreversibly. Anyone who knows China, knows that the country is improving dramatically, and not only economically but also ecologically, socially and culturally.*********
While it cannot be denied that several Western countries gave at least some freedom and passable standard of living to their citizens, the price has been paid by the plundered continents, squashed under the Western colonialist and neo-colonialist heels. Tens of millions of non-white people died and are still dying, in order to fulfill tremendous greed and gluttony of so-called Western democracies. I saw it, unfortunately too often, with my own eyes. Only lives of the European and North American citizens are respected and protected, not at all the lives of those who are forced to serve them.
China showed to the world a totally opposite path. Everything in the PRC is created with hands of the Chinese people; with their brains, their muscles and their sweat. It is ‘clean’ and honest progress, not one that is resting on the corpses and blood of the millions of ‘others’.
Andre Vltchek - No Matter What the Western Propaganda Says, Chinese Democracy is Alive and Well!