A reposting of an original article by Roland Boer (Professor of Marxist Philosophy at Dalian University of Technology, China, and author of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners (Springer, 2021)).
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ABSTRACTS
The Boer’s article: China's Socialist Democractic system provides the reader with a very valuable introduction to China’s socialist democratic system, a topic about which there is widespread ignorance in the West.
We need to talk more – much more – about China’s socialist democratic system.
Why?
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To begin with an overview: the system (制度zhidu) of socialist democracy in China has seven integrated structures or institutional forms (体制tizhi): electoral democracy; consultative democracy; grassroots democracy; minority nationalities policy; rule of law; human rights; and leadership of the Communist Party.
Let me use a diagram to illustrate:
China's Socialist Democractic system
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