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2007-09-30 China-Japan-Koreas

China Communist elder issues bold call for democracy

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Posted by lotp 2007-09-30 15:59|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 In a bold jab before a key meeting of China's Communists, a 90-year-old former secretary to Mao Zedong has urged the Party to embrace democracy, saying that only political freedom can end instability and corruption.

I foresee the strong liklyhood of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome in Li Rui's future.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-30 16:22|| 2007-09-30 16:22|| Front Page Top

#2 ... only political freedom can end instability and corruption.

Cause we know how well that works in Massachusetts, New Jersey, St. Louis, etc. Democracy by its own definition is instability. The key to good democracy is to avoid the consolidation of power. And any governmental social system is going to have corruption, its the nature of power. You need to spend the resources and effort to suppress corruption like murder, robbery, rape, etc. By reducing the concentration of power, you reduce the corruption. In return you accept a degree of chaos and inefficiencies and injustices, cause the alternative is clearly more destructive of 'freedom' in the long run.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-30 19:15|| 2007-09-30 19:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Approaching it directly may be less effective than if he called for a multi-party split *from* the communist party, based on a current factional division. This would mean that those currently in power would stay in power, but would compete with each other to continue to stay in power.

Each faction would then create its own leadership, and each region in China would appoint its own representatives, much like how the US States originally appointed US senators.

Democracy wouldn't begin from the top down, but from the bottom up.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-30 19:41|| 2007-09-30 19:41|| Front Page Top

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