Lluís Bassets on the democracy quotient of the oppressed

While some observers believe the Arab countries and China are unsuited to democracy, Lluís Basset criticises and points out that a few years ago Spain too was regarded as unfit for democracy: "These are supremacist ideologies typical of people who believe themselves and their own cultures to be superior. Such ideologies may adopt the guise of anti-relativism or liberalism. Some times they even use anti-colonial arguments to criticise intervention on behalf of human rights in befriended dictatorships as interference. But these arguments are part of a neo-colonial legacy that has long since been refuted by the facts. It's a disgrace that these arguments also play into the hands of the dictators, helping them to stay in power. These are people who, like Franco, believe that nations, like children, can't be left to their own devices. It's hardly surprising that they are now looking on in disbelief at the revolutionary wave that has now reached the Arab world and which will one day also reach China."

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