With a Constitution and the slogan of democracy, is China a real democratic society? Not necessarily. At present, China has not established a democratic system. The two fundamentals of constitutional and democratic society are: 1. General election; 2. Separation of powers. This guarantees no one can become a dictator of "great leadership". Therefore, it decides that the whole society is democratic, rather than authoritarian regimes. Democracy means that everyone is equally ruled by law. No one can be above the law, or become government leader without "democratic election". This is democracy.
Now Chinese theorists want to create the definition of "Chinese characteristics socialism democracy" and define present Chinese society with such democracy. This is a trick of changing the concept of democracy. For example, they claim that "negotiation" is "democracy". In the West, people say "negotiation" should be added to democracy, because the minority lost in campaign is not a small number of people, sometimes reaching almost 50%. Thus the procedure of negotiation is very important too. This is an addition when "democracy" is established. While in China, there is no "democratic election" at all. It is unreasonable to claim "negotiation is democracy" when democratic election does not exist. The logic is wrong. The purpose of such claim is to deny the fundamentals of "democratic politics", which are general election and separation of power.
05/10/2008