It’s always funny to me how western media tries to frame this as a bad thing.
“Not even their elites are safe from their government!” Oh no, how terrible that they face consequences for their actions like the rest of us
That was one of the weirdest parts of a really awful interview Zizek did, “The most dangerous place to be was on top” under Stalin and that this was worse than what the Nazis did.
the nazis of course famously dangerous to be on the bottom
I struggle to even say Zizek is a misguided socialist. He’s a cranky without useful analysis. The only two things he’s done well are his ramblings on consuming anticapitalist media and making Jordan Peterson look dumb.
lmao the higher ups have more power, therefore more responsibility and culpability for wrongdoing, therefore they are more severely punished. What a fucking mystery that the people who did the most wrong had the most power?
What a fucking astute observation by brain genius Zizek
Can’t Murica do the same thing for financial criminals like Bernie Madoff? Also how do I include the amerikkka emoji?
2008 was caused by bankers doing extremely illegal shit. How many people were imprisoned for it?
They could do it. But they don’t want to. The difference here is that in the west the financial elite are the ruling class and the proletariat are under the boot. In China the proletariat are the ruling class and the bourgeoisie are under the boot.
In China the proletariat are the ruling class
Slightly unrelated but your comment makes me wonder, are they though? The President of China hasn’t changed in ten years and while that in of itself doesn’t imply wrongdoing, China DOES have a one party election system. Can we really call that the rule of the working class, or even a free democracy for that matter?
The President of China hasn’t changed in ten years
Germany had the same president for 16 years. Canada had the same one for 9.
Maximum term limits in the US is eight years
What the fuck are you talking about? Free democracy is when your leader changes every two years?
Yes.
Term limits are neutral as far as democracy is concerned
One proletarian party is more democratic then N bourgeois parties.
proletarian dictatorships tend to have long-ruling leaders who are symbols of proletarian power that the masses can concentrate around and trust, because they have proven their allegiance in the revolution. Every proletarian state has had long-serving heads of state.
Democracy isn’t “when leader changes a bunch”. That just means a volatile system, or a system where the leader doesn’t matter anyway and is just a rotating door.
