Read this - it will completely blow that argument out of the water.

"One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led
by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can
also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the
politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move
a society forward in the 21st century."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/op...dman.html?_r=3

"Reasonably enlightened" - China.

WTF?