[ExI] China model vs. US model

Joseph Bloch seculartranshumanist at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 03:38:07 UTC 2011


Especially in light of the recent discussion, I thought this article
was interesting:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/9/beijing-blueprint/?page=all#pagebreak

The focus on the article is the relative strengths of weaknesses of
China's political dictatorship vs. the US's political pluralism, but
the common thread seems to be the fact that both seem to be sharing a
common economic system.

Perhaps just as we speak of "democratic socialism", we might need to
enlarge our vocabulary to also include "democratic capitalism" and
"autocratic capitalism". Or would the latter simply be "fascism"?

Joe



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