Democracy is not a political system, but a process of electing officials entrusted to govern. In Western political thought, the rule of the majority as a political process is crucial that in its absence, one can never call it a democracy. Their leaders realized there is no way to resolve the contradiction except to adopt a different but far democratic system. Chairman Mao Zedong was determined to adopt a political system based on his correct assessment that contradiction is caused by class interest which is concomitant to a given class society. Maybe President Xi’s call for “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is one many outsiders could hardly understand.

Source: The Standard November 03, 2017 17:15 UTC