(July 6, 2013 at 8:03 pm)Chuck Wrote: Yeah, so you are admitting so called communist countries are in fact a very diverse lot, some proving very capable of adroit economic management that takes advantage of much of the strength of market forces long thought to be the private preserves of western, particularly Anglo-American style, capitalism, yet without relinquishing the much of the strong authoritarian central direction that otherwise would have been ridiculed by American conservatives as "socialist"?
So that taking advantage of the power of market forces is in fact not nearly as incompatible with central economic authoritarianism as we have been told to think?
No. I'm saying that if a communist country starts moving away from total communism and adopts capitalist economic strategies they start to flourish.
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