Chinese democracy works

Western representative democracy no longer has legitimacy

      A video by Carlos Martínez, “Chinese democracy is far more effective than Western democracy,” recently was published in ChinaDaily.com.cn, an English language Website operating under the auspices of the Communist Party of China.  Martínez is co-editor of the London-based platform Friends of Socialist China, which has the mission of supporting the People’s Republic of China and spreading understanding of Chinese socialism.  The video was retransmitted at the Friends of Socialist China Website, and it can be found here.

      Martínez began by noting that in the West we tend to think of China as having an undemocratic system because if follows a model different from Western parliamentarism.  Intellectuals and politicians have universalized the idea of liberal democracy, so countries like China and Cuba are painted as being undemocratic or even authoritarian.  But the reality is that the Chinese system is far more effective than Western representative democracy in representing the i…