I was in a Chinese university around Geoge W. Bush’s second election and afterwards, which didn’t make it easy to convince Chinese students that Democracy was a particularly good system for picking competent leaders (Chinese leaders are often graduates from prestigious universities like Tsinghua (where I was), which is more like MIT than like Yale, and they are generally very serious and competent, though not particularly telegenic). On the other hand, the Chinese system gets you people like Mao.
I don’t think Mao could exactly be said to be a product of the Chinese system, seeing as unless you construe the “Chinese system” to include revolutions, it necessarily postdates him.
I’m not necessarily saying that democracy is the best thing ever. I just have issues jumping from “democracies aren’t really as good as you’re supposed to believe” to “and therefore a monarchy is better.”
I feel I should point out the Chinese system was not what got Mao into power. Instituting the Chinese system is what got him into power. And this system saw massive reform since then.
I was in a Chinese university around Geoge W. Bush’s second election and afterwards, which didn’t make it easy to convince Chinese students that Democracy was a particularly good system for picking competent leaders (Chinese leaders are often graduates from prestigious universities like Tsinghua (where I was), which is more like MIT than like Yale, and they are generally very serious and competent, though not particularly telegenic). On the other hand, the Chinese system gets you people like Mao.
I don’t think Mao could exactly be said to be a product of the Chinese system, seeing as unless you construe the “Chinese system” to include revolutions, it necessarily postdates him.
I totally agree, and in addition, Mao is the kind of leader that could get elected in a democracy.
However, a democracy may be getting rid of someone like Mao than China was (provided the democracy stats).
I’m not necessarily saying that democracy is the best thing ever. I just have issues jumping from “democracies aren’t really as good as you’re supposed to believe” to “and therefore a monarchy is better.”
I feel I should point out the Chinese system was not what got Mao into power. Instituting the Chinese system is what got him into power. And this system saw massive reform since then.