On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:18:13 +0000 (UTC), Steven James Forsberg
wrote:


I don't think this is quite so. China is rapidly evolving its
economy, but politically retains very oligarchal. I think a better model
for China is "totalitarian capitalism", like that practiced by Nazi Germany.
Relatively great economic freedom combined with extreme government power,
often used to support "a strong economy". For all is faults, Nazi Germany
had quite an economic turnaround and did some pretty amazing things with
regards to economy and production before and during WWII. It is a somewhat
sobering analogy -- Nazi leadership (and complicity by the 'conservative'
business class) took Germany from ashes and poverty to World Power -- if
only right into a destructive war.

regards,
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Or as another example, South Korea for most of the 20th century. A
pretty much "anything goes" economic model, but still rather
repressive politically.