Could someone point me towards some sources on how the DPRK, Vietnam and Laos are communist and/or democracies? I have some on China already, but I need to expand my knowledge
They’re not communist—they’re governed by a communist party, and are in various stages of socialist construction.
Their democratic mechanisms differ, and I can’t give a comprehensive explanation of each. To my knowledge, Vietnam’s is the most similar to the west, with a nationwide vote for local representatives in the CPV.
Personally, for me, the important thing for democracy is whether the Government is competently addressing the key concerns and desires of the people.
For the DPRK, the primary contradiction is their people being cleaved in two, and the threat of US imperialism, so the focus is heavily on military prowess, similar to the USSR’s approach pre-WWII.
For Laos, the primary contradiction is that they’re a landlocked country, so the focus is on developing rail links.
For Vietnam, the primary contradiction is being underdeveloped, so they’re following a similar route as China, taking western capital. They’re soon going to face the same issues that China did under Hu Jintao and Xi Jingping, being risk of bourgeois corruption, so we’ll see how they handle that.
Could someone point me towards some sources on how the DPRK, Vietnam and Laos are communist and/or democracies? I have some on China already, but I need to expand my knowledge
They’re not communist—they’re governed by a communist party, and are in various stages of socialist construction.
Their democratic mechanisms differ, and I can’t give a comprehensive explanation of each. To my knowledge, Vietnam’s is the most similar to the west, with a nationwide vote for local representatives in the CPV.
Personally, for me, the important thing for democracy is whether the Government is competently addressing the key concerns and desires of the people.
For the DPRK, the primary contradiction is their people being cleaved in two, and the threat of US imperialism, so the focus is heavily on military prowess, similar to the USSR’s approach pre-WWII.
For Laos, the primary contradiction is that they’re a landlocked country, so the focus is on developing rail links.
For Vietnam, the primary contradiction is being underdeveloped, so they’re following a similar route as China, taking western capital. They’re soon going to face the same issues that China did under Hu Jintao and Xi Jingping, being risk of bourgeois corruption, so we’ll see how they handle that.
Thanks