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Could you list all the capitalist dictatorships? - King of Chaos - 01-16-2013 12:08 PM
If you think free market capitalism is the only way you have democracy, studying world politics tells you that's wrong. I heard that many of the most successful companies are more like social democracies, while many of the most brutal dictatorships are actually capitalist. What are the capitalist dictatorships?
- Primo - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
None
- African Queen - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
Russia and Mexico come to mind immediatley. There is no effective poltical opposition in either country.
- iris054 - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy spring immediately to mind as examples fascist capitalism dictatorships.
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- Visualshape575 - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
China is as close as you are going to get on that one.
A dictatorship in structure alone can not be a capitalistic socioeconomic existence. The entire theory doesn't allow that to happen. The nature of a dictatorship will not allow the coexistence of capitalism in it.
Venezuela would be another that would come close.
- Kenny - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
Fascist Italy/Spain and Nazi Germany were capitalist,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism
It isn't socialism, there isn't workers control of the means of production (The USSR wasn't socialist either, but state capitalist/bureaucratic collectivist)
"During and after the Spanish Civil War, Franco and the Falange created a corporative system based on the Italian model. Economic liberalism was replaced with economic intervention according to the wishes of the corporations, which also set prices and wages."
Sounds like capitalism to me. Just not free-market capitalism.
"In 1942, Hitler privately said: “I absolutely insist on protecting private property ... we must encourage private initiative†"
- Niiice - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
I know enough about world politics and especially economics to know that free market capitalism does not exist and has not existed for about 100 years.
- xuliganwhit - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
There aren't any. But what you are saying is very similar to Dictatorship of the proletariat. You should read up on it. Which I personally think we are heading towards. The next step is then full Dictatorship.
- Shin Chan - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
"If you think free market capitalism is the only way you have democracy, studying world politics tells you that's wrong."
Fail on the first sentence: free market capitalism represents freedom and choice - equality for all--not three wolves and a sheep democratically voting on what's for dinner.
- ServThePerv - 01-16-2013 12:16 PM
"Capitalist dictatorships" = oxymoron.