Capitalism - the Ultimate Religion

[Anomalocaris]

What do you mean?
Countries who fear socialism (America) are pretty much developing countries, they dont even have a public health care system! Socialism is the best system we have...

I can't help but notice that most socialist countries with any modicrum of success allow for, shall I say, 'capitalist' tendancies. I believe that's why Russia and China have been steadily improving their economies. India, of course, is a democracy like the US and every bit the capitalist. They are also a rising superpower.

Notice a tendancy?

So which developed capitalist countries with any modicum of success had done so without allowing for what right wingers would call "socialist" tendencies?

And no, democratic India is not every bit as capitalist like the US. It is actually extremely bureaucratic with very deeply entrenched socialistic expectation on the part of vast majority of it's population that no hopeful candidate, thanks to it's democratic system, can think of leaving unfilled. This is why in "capitalist and democratic" India the the old line Marxist indian communist party is often the power broker in the government.

Communist China, on the other hand, has an extremely capitalistic system for it's private sector, far less regulated than most sectors of US economy. The socialistic expectations built up during Mao years has been cavalierly trampled by the next communist government as it totally dismantled the old welfare state, which it could do because it was not democratic and did not stand to lose elections. .

So it appears the relationship between degrees of socialism, degrees of democracy, and degree of economic success is far more complicated than overconfident, under-informed ideologues is capable of understanding.