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Dictatorship doesn’t imply that there’s only a single ruler.
That said the situation, as in the power of the Politburo, isn’t as extreme as it was in the USSR or in Vietnam before 1988. But they still have ways to go before they’re at Cuban levels of “wait we’ll have to take a closer look they might actually have come up with a form of democracy constitutionally different from the usual ones”. Cuba is still authoritarian but that seems to be more cultural inertia than tankie ideology. Singapore might actually be a good comparison, not economically but politically.
Dictatorship doesn’t imply that there’s only a single ruler.
It’s not? Well, let’s check Wikipedia…
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations. Politics in a dictatorship are controlled by a dictator, and they are facilitated through an inner circle of elites that includes advisers, generals, and other high-ranking officials.
So, you’re technically correct (the best kind of correct), but this still implies that there’s at least a well-defined ruling group. So, if it’s not a single person, what several persons do you think are the dictators of Vietnam?
Dictatorship doesn’t imply that there’s only a single ruler.
That said the situation, as in the power of the Politburo, isn’t as extreme as it was in the USSR or in Vietnam before 1988. But they still have ways to go before they’re at Cuban levels of “wait we’ll have to take a closer look they might actually have come up with a form of democracy constitutionally different from the usual ones”. Cuba is still authoritarian but that seems to be more cultural inertia than tankie ideology. Singapore might actually be a good comparison, not economically but politically.
It’s not? Well, let’s check Wikipedia…
So, you’re technically correct (the best kind of correct), but this still implies that there’s at least a well-defined ruling group. So, if it’s not a single person, what several persons do you think are the dictators of Vietnam?