: Is ‘Chinese democracy’ really a democracy? #IndiaNEWS In response to Joe Biden’s recent “Democracy Summit�, China attacked US-style democracy as “a game of money politics� and “the

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Is ‘Chinese democracy’ really a democracy? #IndiaNEWS
In response to Joe Biden’s recent “Democracy Summit�, China attacked US-style democracy as “a game of money politics� and “the rule of few over many�. China claimed that its own socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics is a “whole process democracy� that works.This is why philosopher Jean-Paul Gagnon’s fascinating proposal to rescue the abandoned science of democracy by building a “data mountain� of democracy’s words fills some people with foreboding. Should we include the Chinese Communist Party’s system of government among the exhibits of democracy? Instead of excluding it, the capaciousness of the democracy database could offer a different way to deal with the questions raised by the party’s claim to democracy.Socialist democracyTo answer the question “What is democracy?� in a way that helps democracy itself, the lexicon of democracy cannot offer straightforward meanings for each item. It matters why and how an adjective came to be attached (its “genetic� understandings). We must draw users’ attention to “people, their customs and practices� and ask “Why democracy?�.The decolonising intention of the lexicon would be lost if it were based on an existing partial theory to exclude “socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics�. At the same time, including it does not endorse the Chinese way of governing. Separating the “what� from the “why� has the advantage...Read more

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