# People's Democracy vs. Westoid “Democracy” The West says Eritrea is not a democracy. They are correct. Eritrea is not a Westoid democracy. We never claimed to be, which is why the West hates us. But before you can understand why, you must understand that "democracy" is not one thing. It is two fundamentally different things, and the West has spent a century pretending they are the same. The first is Westoid democracy. The second is people's democracy. Westoid democracy is a procedural system. Its defining features are: · Periodic elections between competing parties · A "free press" owned by billionaires · A judiciary that interprets the law in the interests of property · Separation of powers between branches that all answer to capital · Formal civil liberties that exist on paper but require money to exercise In this system, the masses vote every four years then are ignored. Policy is written by lobbyists, funded by corporations, and enforced by a state that answers to the wealthy. The West calls this "democracy" because it is the only system that allows capital to rule without appearing to. Western “democracy” is just the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, dressed in the language of the people. It’s an oligarchy with elections. Purely a system where the form of popular participation exists, but the substance of power remains with capital. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83cB3MR/