I hope the penalties for cop corruption in China are the same as the ones for politicians.
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- In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.
- Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.
Looking forward to coming back in a bit and reading some of the lib-outs in the comment section.
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There's already one.
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That sure didn't take long.
i sometimes wonder if i sounded like them before i discovered lemmy.
inb4 but muh bourne supremacy
Any informed opinions on whether Chinese people are in general more or less racist than Americans?
π€· Thereβs no universal, coherent definition for racism, and if there were, weβd still have to run two very large, expensive research/polling projects. Also these are extremely large populations (on extremely large territories), neither of which is monolithic. Also, how racist a people are doesnβt necessarily align with how racist a state is. In an online forum, itβs the kind of question that mostly just exposes some peopleβs existing prejudices.
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Lol, another "China good, America bad" post. Classic.
Always followed up with accusations of American/Western indoctrination if you disagree. Bonus points for sinophobia accusation if you say anything bad about China. π₯±
These kinds of maximalist statements you're making reek of the conservative "I got kicked out just for having a different opinion!"
Like yeah actually if the "anything bad" you say is the same Epstein empire propaganda bullshit meant to justify bombing shitloads of people -like they're doing right now- then those with a mind and soul will react poorly to that.
All cops are bad actually.
Cops exist to protect the ruling class of a given society. In the west, that class is the capitalist class. In socialism, that class is the working classes. Until we get to classless society, police in socialism serve a necessary role that must be accountable to the people.
The ruling class in China is not the working class.
Public ownership is the principal aspect of China's economy, and capitalists are held on a tight leash to focus on developing the productive forces. The large firms and key industries in China are publicly owned, it's only the small and medium firms that are private.
The form of democracy and the mode of production in China ensures that there is a connection between the people and the state. Policies like the mass line are in place to ensure this direct connection remains. This is why over 90% of the Chinese population supports the government, and why they have such strong perceptions around democracy:
The Chinese political system is based on whole-process people's democracy, a form of consultative democracy. The local government is directly elected, and then these governments elect people to higher rungs, meaning any candidate at the top level must have worked their way up from the bottom and directly proved themselves. Moreover, the economy in the PRC is socialist, with public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy. Combining this consultative, ground-up democracy with top-down economic planning is the key to China's success.
I highly recommend Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance. Socialist democracy has been imperfect, but has gone through a number of changes and adaptations over the years as we've learned more from testing theory to practice. Boer goes over the history behind socialist democracy in this textbook.
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