If there is a pro-democracy communist dissident who is an equally trenchant critic of free market capitalism, I may be more receptive...
(Context: Sattwick Barman posted Excerpts from Chinese dissident Hu Ping's seminal 1980 essay, translated for the first time into English, published in guernicamag...
(Context: Sattwick Barman posted Excerpts from Chinese dissident Hu Ping's seminal 1980 essay, translated for the first time into English, published in guernicamag...
My comment: Quite interesting - but am a bit tired of hackneyed Western Democracy-inspired arguments against a flawed communist experiments. Anti-communist dissidents propped by the US intelligence agencies and harboured by US think-tanks have little intellectual, ideological or political credibility.
Sattwick's response: But then again no Communist regime in history has yet, in practice, been able to reconcile individual liberty and the rule of the party. I am quite aware of the limits that a liberal democracy-market run model imposes on individual liberty, but there at least has to be a commitment to freedom of speech. And that's what makes, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution more "revolutionary" than, say, the Chinese constitution.)
Join in if you like... but am tagging some who might be interested in this post... Abhi Deb, Sayan Sanyal, G S Ram Mohan, Budhaditya, Ushinor,Anant, Vipul Mudgal, Jyotsna, Suresh, A.m. Khan Yazdani Danny,Mariadoss Chinnappa Rajan, Akshay Deshmane, Anupam Verma, Rakesh Sharma, N Venugopal Rao and Rahul Yem...
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