Thread 17810616

Was he right?

>>17810616 (OP)
>Lee Kuan Yew
He's a rightist, so always wrong.

>>17810634
Why would a rightist support the most controversial decisions of communist China?

>>17810616 (OP)
>killing libtard protestors

Basado

>>17810635
Because post-Deng "communist" China is a fascist dictatorship modelled off Singapore.

>>17810642
>Because post-Deng "communist" China is a fascist dictatorship modelled off Singapore.

>>17810642
God I love revisionists

>>17810642
In order to be a dictatorship it has to have a dictator. Xi Jinping has to abide by the constitution of China, therefore by definition he's not a dictator.
A dictator has to have power to make decisions without the approval of parliament. That's why Hitler was a dictator, he literally could create laws and then people just had to follow them.

>>17810668
Hitler's policies also went through the reichstag - but just like in China, that parliament was a rubber stamp on whatever the executive branch demanded

Based

They were (((students))) not students

Western think tank color revolution. Glowies still seething it failed

>>17810693
The Reichstag lost its power as a legislative branch due to the Enabling Act. Strictly speaking, Xi is beholden to the government of China and then could sack him if they wanted. It's Article 63 of the People's Congress.
https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawregulations/201911/20/content_WS5ed8856ec6d0b3f0e9499913.html
Chinese people don't want a situation where Xi loses his mind and they can't do anything about it. He's gonna get old and senile eventually.

>>17810709
This is like saying Stalin wasn't a dictator because he ruled jointly with the Politburo and the heckin constitution said that if he did a bad thing the Congress of Soviets could sack him.
Meanwhile in reality:
>By the Soviet constitutions of 1936 and 1977, the Supreme Soviet was defined as the highest organ of state power in the Soviet Union and was imbued with great lawmaking powers. In practice, however, it was a toy parliament which did nothing other than ratify decisions already made by the USSR's executive organs and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) – always by unanimous consent[3] – and listen to the General Secretary's speeches.

>>17810715
What I'm saying is that it's clear and easy to demonstrate how Hitler was a dictator because he had legally had power over the government. Xi doesn't. But I don't want to change the topic to the Soviet Union as that's a separate topic that I'm honestly not informed about.

>>17810720
Ultimately the hallmark of an authoritarian regime IS the meaninglessness of legal frameworks. To a government that no longer depends on consent of the governed, laws are words on paper. Hitler interpreted this as meaning that he should dissolve the law-making powers of the Reichstag, while the CCP just like the CPSU before it see toy parliaments and "democratic centralism" as more legitimating.

>>17810729
An authoritarian regime is not necessarily a dictatorship, that's my point. I absolutely agree that the CCP is an authoritarian regime, but it's an authoritarian regime with the CCP at the head (and Xi and a figurehead of the CCP), rather than it being a country run by a dictator.

>>17810635
>communist China?
Mao Zedong's China died with him.

>>17810616 (OP)
Absolutely not. Complete failure.

>>17810616 (OP)
From the PoV of technocratic authoritarians like Yew who prioritize stability, regime security and development above all else, yes; even if morally what the PLA did was repulsive and politically it was extremely harmful to the party.
>>17810642
>post-Deng "communist" China is a fascist dictatorship modelled off Singapore
Retards like this are ridiculous, post-Deng China is literal NEP Leninism.

>>17810634
If he's wrong why Singapore is successful while all leftist countries are shitholes?

>>17810616 (OP)
It wasn't even close to 200k, it was like 2k max