I told my brother that we live in a bourgeois dictatorship and he told me I was crazy. When a liberal calls something a dictatorship I have no idea what they mean.
Dictatorship = one dude with a hat or moustache tells everyone to do funny dances (see: North Korea)
Everyone doing funny dances because their refusal or inability to do so would cause them to starve in the streets? And the system of social relations that keeps this situation going is being propped up by violent force on behalf of a constellation of powerful people who own everything? Democracy.
Who would they even say was the dictator of China in 1989? Fucking Deng?
I told my brother that we live in a bourgeois dictatorship and he told me I was crazy. When a liberal calls something a dictatorship I have no idea what they mean.
Dictatorship = one dude with a hat or moustache tells everyone to do funny dances (see: North Korea)
Everyone doing funny dances because their refusal or inability to do so would cause them to starve in the streets? And the system of social relations that keeps this situation going is being propped up by violent force on behalf of a constellation of powerful people who own everything? Democracy.
In the liberal mind: Mao died and his successor Xi Jinping was ready to go at a moments notice.