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Maximize crony capitalism and oligarchy, perhaps. The US drifted far from any form of pure open market laissez-faire capitalism or balanced regulated capitalis
by defrost 1y ago
Maximize crony capitalism and oligarchy, perhaps.
The US drifted far from any form of pure open market laissez-faire capitalism or balanced regulated capitalism some time past.
- andrepd 1y agoYes, your "pure" capitalism tends to do that. Kinda similar to the people who say of the SU "but it was not true communism".
- defrost 1y agoThe people that founded the SU openly declared that it wasn't communism, just a managed phase on the way to actual communism (that never happened). Either way, we're talking here about small in groups treating a larger out group as sheep to be manipulated and harvested.
- exe34 1y agoIt's almost like the road didn't go where they said it would.
- defrost 1y agoPretty much, I'm naturally cynical about any waving about of either "Capitalism" or "Communism" as neither has really existed in any pure form and the devil is always in the details. That, and the propensity of those who seek power to dangle whatever shiny utopia best suits their end of fooling the masses.
- kristopolous 1y ago"open market laissez-faire capitalism" was the explicit policy goal for maybe 50 years. The idea that if it was only somehow more pure in some ideological virtue, then it would have worked, you'll need really hard historical material empirical evidence to defend such a claim Not that it wasn't white and pure enough but that if it was the shade whiter you advocate for, it would have somehow been a complete 180°, like some magical threshold