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Hardly any dictators ever in China
by: cofire2
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03/16/03 01:49 pm
Msg: 19 of 24
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The Chinese system is often beyond Western terminology. Even in the
imperitorial times, emperors were usually restricted by traditional
manners and many other powerful people within the bureaucracy. Most of
the time it was a collective rule and seldom reflect the power and will
of one person as typical in Western history. Westerners call Mao a
dictator, but he was really more like a Pope. What was ruling the
country was not his personal will but the theory he represents.
Westerners call Deng a dictator, but he had counter-part conservatives
holding him back within the party, too. What's more, the Confucian
tradition madates leaders work for interests of the country, and that is
basically true for Mao and Deng. On the contrary, (ex-)dictators in
other country, such as Indonesia's Suhato, often accumulated vast amount
of personal wealth. The post-Mao and Deng period China even lacked a
strongman so powerful to be called a dictator. The present system,
although mingled with some elements of Western democracy, resembles more
China's traditional collective ruling bureaucracy, which had been, for
the time, a very successful system. In sum, China has not had many
dictators in the Western sense throughout its long history. And certain
it does not have one now. |
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