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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 23 hours ago

How does, say, China's model of Whole Process People's Democracy, a form of democracy based on consultative democracy, flow from classical liberalism? Liberal models of voting for parties or single representatives don't map at all to China's form of democracy, yet China is consistently seen as more democratic by its own citizens than liberal democracies are by their own citizens:

These are stark differences and are reflective of Marxism as opposed to liberalism.