The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere

Whether a bourgeois democracy has two parties or a thousand, it’s still a democracy of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.

BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.

So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.

This is not news, you say.

Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here’s how they explain it:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.