(October 2, 2013 at 4:09 pm)Chuck Wrote:(October 2, 2013 at 2:30 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Sorry, but China's communist party IS absolute authority in attitude, not evolutionary history. No one is talking about long changes over history.
All human endeavors in our species history are always temporary because all life is finite, so there is no government or religion or business devised by humans that will not change over time.
There are only two things in life that are certain, death and taxes.
Uh, no. Get some real perspective. In real life there is always a heirchy of aiuhorities. There may be one nominally supreme authority, but the actual power of each level of hierchy never derives solely from the supreme nominal authority, even in the most religious or totalitarian of states. So there is no such thing as absolute authority, there can't be such a thing even if some authorities tries hard to pretend to be such a thing.
Making the most sincere pretense at being the absolute authority on everything, and striving to become the most important of the sources from which all level in the heirchy derive their power is a trait of really serious totalitarianis, such as those seen in North Korea. But China is far from a totalitarin state today, when measured against other highly authoritarian states, on both the left and right, over the last century. The CCP don't even claim to be the absolute authority, only the highest authority. They don't even claim to be the sole source of all authority in the heirchy, only the source of political authority. The CCP today is a far cry from being a really serious pretender to the sort of cartoonish absolutisim you imagine.
Quote:They don't even claim to be the sole source of all authority in the heirchy, only the source of political authority.
So? Where is the political pluralism if they the communist party is "only the source of political authority".
Quote:The CCP today is a far cry from being a really serious pretender to the sort of cartoonish absolutisim you imagine.
One party rule is absolutism no different than one person in the form of a dictator.
Now you'd have a better argument that the old ways changing adapting considering China's increasing connection to the global economy. But don't think dissent apposing communism as they employ it, even today, welcomes challenge to one party rule.
China is still ruled by one concept the "one authority".
That is like arguing El is the head god and Baal and Yahweh are the lesser gods. Still falls under the rule of one group of gods with a head god(communism).
