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There is a theory I read that part of the reason for Russia descending into the most nasty aggressive form of capitalism is that under communist rule they were told how bad capitalism was and are almost living a parody version of it now.
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Conditioning innit. It’s been that way for so long. To question it would go against everything they know.
If they had a revolution in China the number of people completely out ways those in power/police/military. But people are so scared they just wouldn’t.
All of this is my opinion. No facts here
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It's so weird that 1.4 bn people in a modern economy are in the grip of old school authoritarianism
Francis Fukuyama was so, so wrong but that idea that Western liberal democracy is the apex of civilisation persists. Not a new way of thinking: Hegel thought the same thing about the society of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The Reaganite economic advisers who swarmed post-Gorbachev Russia thought the same and boy did they do a lot to help create the Russian kleptocracy.
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People in China are told by the government that they're not ready for freedom of expression, "china is a developing country" and it's safer this way. Also told that it IS a democracy with multiple parties, which is sort of true except all the other parties are approved by the CCP and don't really get a say, and the elections are a total joke.
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To those who know China...how would the people react if they were given freedom of expression, multi-party democracy and free and fair elections? It's so weird that 1.4 bn people in a modern economy are in the grip of old school authoritarianism