It sure isn't S.America, or Canada, or Socialist Europe, Or India/China...
Perhaps Japan and Australia.
While most governments, especially developed do incorporate a free market and elements of capitalism, most are leftist/socialist...even India and China, and their current investment in Africa (which China is using the 1 trillion$ US deficit to finance) is used as a means to develope the 2nd and third world, and to spread human resources, not just to N.Americans, and the G8s....they are embracing capitalism as of current to build infrastructure, so one day they may have a socially just society, regardless of income. God Bless Fidel in this time...
(Had this question removed before. And I'm writing this from Beijing...let's see who has more freedom.)
Hegemony or survival.
2007-01-20 00:06:26 · 8 answers · asked by Happier in China 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
or Russia, or Korea...
the problem is that the elements that these countries embrace which would be deemed capitalistic, are represented through world organizations/conglomerations...ergo WTO, WHO, World Court, etc.
I believe in the UN and the EU, and ASEAN, and a United African Continent, and South/Latin America...but it is greed and corporatism, and avarice and selfishness that will prevent the people from developing...all people. Not just those born into it, or asking for more...for people who don't know what justice means...even England has free healthcare and a socialist system (albeit embracing elements of capitalism)...churchill was voted out for chrissake...in favor of atlee the socialist. but these countries all have a social safety net for its citizens. Albeit mass immigration to Europe (from mid-east) and to N.American (asian) have changed this somewhat...these countries all support the tenents of socialism.
The USA is the corporate headquarters of the world.
2007-01-20 00:15:40 · update #1
DylisTN,
I'm not talking about communism. Even Fidel, Hu Jintao, speak of socialism, and social justice. The counter to capitalism today is socialism, and the development of the 2nd and 3rd world.
I used a questio mark. Don't you understand punctuation or syntax?
2007-01-20 00:34:57 · update #2
Yepo!
2007-01-20 00:43:00 · answer #1 · answered by Londgirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
? What was the question. I get the statement. What was the crack "let's see who has more freedom" about?
China has improved greatly in the last 10 years, I hope it continues. I also hope its move to a capitalist economy continues as it is the reason for the improved freedom. Any government which can control the economy will not tolerate freedom for citizens. Capitalism is freedom! Communism is control of the basics of human life: how they make a living. The people will object and the only way to maintain power, is to suppress the people.
The formally Communist government is evolving into a free-market capitalist government. Good move! It's working much better than the Russian move to capitalism.
Sorry, but capitalism is not the opposite of socialism, You can be both, capitalist and socialist, or Communist and socialist. Capitalism is allowing the free market to control the economy. And the US does plenty to help developing 3erd world countries. China being a good example.
Also China's interest in socialism is new. It used to be work or starve. And sometimes work and Starve. If they are using their new wealth to improve the lot of 3erd world countries, I applaud them.
2007-01-20 08:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by DylisTN 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"In the socialist society the distinction between rich and poor would fall away; no one would any longer possess more than another, but every individual would be poorer than even the poorest today, since the communistic system would work to impede production and progress. It may indeed be true that the liberal economic order permits great differences in income, but that in no way involves exploitation of the poor by richer people. What the rich have they have not taken away from the poor; their surplus could not be more or less redistributed to the poor in the socialist society, since in that society it would not be produced at all." Von Mises,
2007-01-20 08:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
,The world is tripping over itself to buy more stuff. Fidel will not rot in his grave 5 minutes when the first Casino opens for Business. China is more like us everyday as freedom is the wish of all people. For now I hope the Chinese Police arrest you for dressing like a woman in public.......................You are an Anti American piece of poodle poop! England "has Some Elements of Capitalism"! You are a delusional sot England Invented it! and the NHS is destroying this great Nation.
2007-01-20 08:14:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many Democrats are growing quite fond of Kim Jong, of North Korea.
2007-01-20 08:13:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If conservatives would learn to drive over 100 miles they might vote differently
2007-01-20 08:25:55 · answer #6 · answered by mr america 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not the last, but it is the largest!
2007-01-20 08:15:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-20 08:09:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋