That does not explain why Taiwan also has a useless government just like the USA, except that the Taiwanese politicians also beat each other up in Congress on TV.
In a bourgeois liberal government, your performance does not matter, only your fealty to capital while lying to the people.
The Kuomintang has the same historical experience as the CPC. So then the question becomes, why did they pick fullthroat liberal democracy instead of preserving some meritocratic elements? The key difference is once again capitalism.
That does not explain why Taiwan also has a useless government just like the USA, except that the Taiwanese politicians also beat each other up in Congress on TV.
In a bourgeois liberal government, your performance does not matter, only your fealty to capital while lying to the people.
Well Taiwan isn’t a Confucian bureaucracy; it’s a liberal democracy just like the West.
The Kuomintang has the same historical experience as the CPC. So then the question becomes, why did they pick fullthroat liberal democracy instead of preserving some meritocratic elements? The key difference is once again capitalism.
Well yes, obviously. I wasn’t disputing that.
To be fair, the CPC isn’t exactly a Confucian bureaucracy either. It’s substantially more advanced than that