Comments on: Can a one party system be called a democracy?

By: isallaboutmath

isallaboutmath — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:45:42 +0000

Oloka I think it will be counter productive to merge different ideologies. It could be also said that people opt for one party also because they like to perpetuate themselves in power! Cuba is precisely an example of it. The Castro family has dominated Cuban politics for now more than 50 years and it seems like they will do it until the natural biological end.
It is I think possible to have many people that believe in some basic ideas to form a party. I say some basic ideas because once you get a lot more detail then people do start to differ considerably. So the question is. What are those basic ideas? Since is government and people that will govern then one of the most basic ideas will be on how people answer a simple question like.
How much government it is really needed in a country?
Depending on the answer to that question you could place people into categories like anarchism, socialist, communist, liberal, etc
Each have a different believe as to the proportions a government should have to respond to people’s need.
In my experience. Too much government is unmanageable too little government is chaos.
So there needs to be some middle point.
Finding what that middle point is thru a democracy is the right choice.

By: oloka-obbo

oloka-obbo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:46:45 +0000

what l want to know is that,cant different idealogies be merged in the one party system of governance? for l think and that different idealogies can be thought of but the best one chosen for governance. people opt for multiparty because of greed for power and massing wealth. there would be no dictatorship or clinging to power by some leaders in miltiparty system. arent people supressed in the multiparty system? l believe democracy can be traced in one party system.

By: isallaboutmath

isallaboutmath — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:14:24 +0000

Tega

I agree there is multiple ways of giving power to the people.

But when a system repress any other dissenting point of view and people are place in prison or even executed for having different solutions to problems in society than the ones impose by a government it makes it impossible for me to call that a democracy. A one party system is a sure road to this
state of affairs.

I have experience both system and there is a big difference with regards to freedom on both therefore that is why I do like better the western style of democracy where each can have different solutions or opinions about each problem and not the “Cuban style democracy”. In all honesty we should not called democracy since what gets done in a system like that is what the top hierarchy of the communist party wants. That is the ruling class and nobody
else have a say in that.

By: Tega

Tega — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:49:16 +0000

must democracy be of western standards and values? the American took Montesque recommedation of democracy, as you know the french adopted a diffrent ideology, and yes the British are diffrent. here I ask again if the Americans and the Brits had practiced one party system in the past hundred years would you be complaining or attacking one party system.

Further I believe one party system can provide strong and good democratic governance with time, howevr those countries that has been unsuccessful in the pratice of one party system are just emerging from extreme communism.