Democracy with Chinese characteristics by Francesco Sisci

The white paper on democracy, released in October, mentions that political reforms will draw inspiration from Marxist tradition. This seems to indicate the tradition of the Italian Communist Party, which upheld democracy in Italy in the 1970s, even against the threat of the communist Red Brigades; or that of the Marxists from the anti-Stalinist school of Frankfurt, which stirred the European students' movement of the 1960s.