Edward [he/him]

AuDHD cat. If you don’t know which pronoun to use, go for it/its. Helpful website to show pronouns in action: http://www.pronouns.failedslacker.com/

  • 2 Posts
  • 539 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 10th, 2024

help-circle










  • To my knowledge, the DPRK is the only socialist country that has implemented direct elections at all levels. Neither the Soviet Union (in its time) nor China have embraced a complete system of direct elections

    Since it is only a short excerpt, there may be some context missing. Or I may be misinterpreting it, I am putting particular importance on “complete,” there is some thing that the USSR didn’t do that makes him consider it not complete? But it seems to me to be incorrect, the soviets did have direct elections after the 1936 constitution?

    Instead of a Congress of delegates electing an Executive Committee, the supreme authority of every territory in the U.S.S.R. will now be a directly elected Supreme Soviet or Council. The citizens will directly elect their deputies not only to the local Soviet, but to the provincial and district Soviets, to the Supreme Council of their Republic, and to the Supreme Council of the U.S.S.R., which will replace the Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee

    Soviet Democracy








  • Edward [he/him]@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlSign check
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    You cannot take that “support” out of the context of the decisions made by communists. Without the efforts made in “Mao-era” china, agriculture, industrialization, education, etc., the reform and opening up would likely have gone differently, china would probably look more like India and Brazil. And during (and after) reform and opening up, china actively steered the economy and set priorities, they continued to hold, as dessalines points out, the commanding heights of the economy, and used 5 year plans. So yes, you can say it was the “support” (capital) that came into china which made them richer, but only in context.