In fact, calling them "western" ideas is exactly how autocracies belittle them to their people.
In fact, calling them "western" ideas is exactly how autocracies belittle them to their people.
It would be interesting if you could give an example of similar ideas from seriously non-Western cultures. Say, Asia has plenty of cultures, a number of them with highly developed, original schools of philosophy.
Calling democracy a "western" ideology makes it sound like it's not as relevant to eastern cultures - which is silly because it's now practiced widely in east asia.
The philosophies and ideas are of Western origin. But implementing those ideas is not restricted to people ethically descended from people from Western countries.
There are very very few countries that haven't dropped centralized gov't controlled economies - even in Asia.