Tom Paine 1949
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No. They are monsters of your imagination. The Chinese system is bureaucratic, authoritarian, and it has a tendency to throw up one man rule (even a cult of personality) now under Xi, all of which have deep cultural roots in Chinese society. The Party is like the old Confucian / imperial bureaucracy, now supervising a modern economy. It is not rooted in “communism” except in name. It is a nationalist party whose cadres are well educated people with deep connections to their society, proud of the difficult transformations they have overseen in society. Top leaders must rise through the ranks, rotated around the whole country, running cities and provinces and huge enterprises. No movie stars or diletantes. Corruption there certainly is. Cynicism. Despicable toadying sycophants. But the core leadership is probably a more meritocratic and competent force than you can imagine. Much more human, too.they are ruled by monsters
If you could somehow tomorrow simply disappear the “evil” Xi leadership and the other top CP groups, what do you think might replace them? Among all the rich capitalists, the state capitalist enterprises, the furiously competitive and hard-working professionals and middle classes, the soldiers, the easily misled and ignorant poor — what might emerge from 1.4 billion people without the guiding force of the CP? You might not like what would replace this party. It sure as hell won’t be a Jeffersonian democracy.