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Re:‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong by TeeMassive on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:00AM (#28151725)
Taiwan used to be an autocracy too yet turned itself into a liberal democracy. At least "right wing" autocrats have goals, albeit misguided ones, and power is a mean to an end; but communist are obsessed by power and power alone.
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Re:‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong by AussieWog93 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:06AM (#28151768)
>At least "right wing" autocrats have goals, albeit misguided ones, and power is a mean to an end; but communist are obsessed by power and power alone.

I don't think that's true at all.

Most of the Middle-Eastern dictators are "right wing" and have no goal apart from seizing and holding onto power.

On the communist side, while that would be the case for many leaders, both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro come to mind as exceptions. Keeping it strictly to "CCP-style" communism, Wen Jiabao jumps out as someone who saw the CCP beauracracy as a positive means to an end.

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Re:‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong by alentist on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:49AM (#28152081)
> both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro come to mind as exceptions

What do you mean?

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Re:‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong by AussieWog93 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:48AM (#28152453)
I may be wrong, but from what I understand they had other goals than the pursuit of power and power alone. Specifically national independence, in both cases.
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Re:‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong by TeeMassive on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:29PM (#28164660)
Yeah, those are called excuses.
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