@samuelszuchan: When longtime 60 Minutes interviewer Mike Wallace called Jiang Zemin (then China's president) a dictator to his face in a rare August 2000 interview, Jiang called it "a big mistake." Robert Anderson (the CBS producer in the room) understood why. "He bristled at that word," Anderson said, "because by their definition he is not one." Chinese has two words that English translates as "dictatorship." "Zhuanzheng" is the dictatorship of a class. The standard Chinese dictionary lists "democracy" as its antonym, so the official name, "the people's democratic dictatorship," puts two words the dictionary calls opposites side by side. "Ducai" is the autocracy of a single person, the word China uses for Chiang Kai-shek. In his essay On the People's Democratic Dictatorship, dated June 30th, 1949, Mao Zedong used both. He quoted his critics saying "you are dictatorial," and answered: "My dear sirs, you are right. That is exactly what we are." Then he wrote: "The people's democratic zhuanzheng, or call it the people's democratic ducai. Either way it comes to the same thing." But the official English translation cut that line. If you read the essay in English, you have never seen Mao call his own state a "ducai." Nobody edited the Chinese. Read it in the original and Mao is still calling his own state a "ducai." This was the last time that happened. After 1949 the state stopped treating them as synonyms. "Ducai" was reassigned to enemies. In the 1981 resolution on Mao's rule, "ducai" appears exactly once and refers to the Nationalists. Mao gets other vocabulary like "personal arbitrariness" or "the cult of personality." Deng's 1980 speech on one-man rule uses "ducai" zero times. The constitution carries "zhuanzheng" four times and "ducai" never. In December 2021, the State Council (China's cabinet) published a white paper arguing China is a democracy. One section heading, in the government's own English, reads "The Governing System of the People's Democratic Dictatorship," with "dictatorship" in quotes, as though the word shouldn't be taken literally. The Chinese version has no quotes around it.

Mo :

Ignorance and arrogance, ding xiao ping and jiang zemin , are wonderful characters, saved china from disintegration after maos atrocities, level headed, relinquished power, and made sure no dictators take power, until they’re old or dead no longer able to regulate the party… xi rose to power

Sgt peppers. :

This was insanely confusing. What is the moral of this story? Why was it a mistake? How does this benefit or disadvantage either party? I have questions dammit! I am stupid!

alaric :

China is adept at packaging bad things under a good name and constantly brainwashing others. Those who disobey are labeled as traitors.

Alessandro 馮冠霖 :

it's because they see socialism as the dictatorship of the working class (through the party) over the others. not saying it's good or bad or real or fake, it's just the meaning of the expression according to chinese marxists. the other economic classes have no political rights and cannot form parties or alliances. they also have no way to organize themselves outside of the party and have to obey party leadership. that's the meaning of dictatorship in this particular sense.

Quest.ion. :

I mean yeah dictatorship of the proletariat doesn't mean actual dictatorship. Like the US by Marxist definition is dictatorship of the bourgeoisie but it's also a "democracy"

Nehemia Gordon :

This is an important observation!

Nelson :

The consistency of this guy is baffling, there's no way he's not sponsored.

Big Prosody :

I find I'm commenting on your videos less because your pronunciation is getting better

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I'm confused. what did you say?

Noobtowerfan :

how do you this type of videos?

GreenieBeanie :

can we know why it's wrong? did he use ducai or Zhuangzheng?

Crelian :

But at what cost?

jakarta48fansid :

So miss translating?

Promethian :

Capitalists attempt to comprehend the concept of a dictatorship of the proletariat

RuheForst :

icy :

sooo it’s just “dictatorship of the proletariat”?

User1395739947738 :

it's pronounced Doo-Cai

Diss :

American democracy means that the people are the people and the government is the master. The government has the final say. Even the election of the president is an internal choice, and you can even spend money to buy tickets.

京兆都督 :

The oligarchic capitalist dictatorship in the United States is the real authoritarianism！

user1454180836750 :

Hey man, I think learning some pinyin would help a lot

Hearts of stone :

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JK :

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yuki :

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João Pedro Abreu Aze :

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