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11. Why are Communist countries all one-party dictatorships?
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Capitalism Is Not a Democracy
The word socialism was the name given to a broad range of ideas which emerged in the first decades of the 1800s. What these ideas had in common is that they rejected the economic and political system that was emerging at the time, which the socialists called capitalism. The owner of capital has the power to boss around the people who depend on that capital. In modern representative democracies, all citizens are supposed to have equal political power through one person, one vote. But in reality, we all know that the more capital you have, the more you dominate the political system beyond your tiny little vote.
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