How can any system of government be defined as democratic when that system concentrated power into a single party system? All the while suppressing dissent and suppressing civil liberties.
Democracy is defined as power ultimately residing with the people, either directly or through freely elected representatives. None of which the USSR had. It was a totalitarian dictatorship with power concentrated centrally through the politburo and a dictator sitting at the top of it all.
Did I also spot an apologist for the acts of the great purge elsewhere in this thread?
Also, your "meme" is based on the logical fallacy of false equivalency. Comparing a single aspect of two different systems of government, doesn't equate that either of them are better than the other. You've selectively chosen a single frame of reference that doesn't prove your argument in your "meme". It is a misleading and fallacious method of debate.
How can any system of government be defined as democratic when that system concentrated power into a single party system? All the while suppressing dissent and suppressing civil liberties.
Democracy is defined as power ultimately residing with the people, either directly or through freely elected representatives. None of which the USSR had. It was a totalitarian dictatorship with power concentrated centrally through the politburo and a dictator sitting at the top of it all.
Did I also spot an apologist for the acts of the great purge elsewhere in this thread?
Also, your "meme" is based on the logical fallacy of false equivalency. Comparing a single aspect of two different systems of government, doesn't equate that either of them are better than the other. You've selectively chosen a single frame of reference that doesn't prove your argument in your "meme". It is a misleading and fallacious method of debate.