Name one purely capitalist Country?

Yakuda said:
The capitalism we have has been infected with socialist ideas
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There is no 'infection of capitalism with socialism'. It is one or the other.

Capitalism is the voluntary creation of products and services for voluntary sale at the agreed upon price. It is the only system that creates wealth.

Socialism is the theft of products and services for 'redistribution' to the 'needy'. In other words, all socialism is based on theft of wealth.
Socialism cannot even exist without capitalism to steal from. Once it runs out of places to steal from, it collapses.
 
evince said:


In Federalist essay No. 10, Madison distinguished two sorts of governments for his readers.

One was a “pure democracy,” which he described as “a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.” A New England town meeting might qualify for this definition, where voters assembled to choose town officers and approve local bylaws.

The other type of government was a “republic,” defined as “a government in which the scheme of representation takes place” – meaning where the people’s chosen representatives made governing decisions for them.

That seems cut and dried. Surely no one thought the entire population of 13 states could work like a town meeting.

But Madison here was saying only that the possibility of a “pure” democracy was impractical. He was by no means banishing all democratic ideas and institutions.
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Democracies have no 'town officers' or any elected officers of any kind.
A democracy has no representatives and constitution.
It is government by popular vote...in other words, mob rule.

A republic is government by law (aka a constitution). It has representatives declared by that constitution, which also describes their authority, term, and how they are to be elected.
 
While there is no such thing as a total capitalist country, one has to admit that America is the closet thing to be considered a capitalist nation.

On the other hand, there are such nations to be considered total Communist nations, such as N. Korea, China and Cuba.

American Democrats, Socialists, and Communists who adhere to every anti American Socialist-Communist ideology can and should be labeled as such, and in no way would they ever come close to supporting or engaging in America's mostly Capitalist society-culture.
 
evince said:
The Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums, education and research centers, created by the United States federal government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the United States National Museum, but that name ceased to exist administratively in 1967.
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YARP
 
QP! said:
That is also the biggest threat to China because if their next leader is Trump or Putin like and instead wants to just loot the country instead of building it, they will become the richest person on the planet but the country will become a Russia like basket case.

They will face no resistance.
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The government of China already loots China, Kewpie.
Trump doesn't loot.
DEMOCRATS DO.

Inversion fallacy. You cannot blame your problems on Trump.
 
QP! said:
I would not say they became more democratic as Xi is a true dictator with absolute control.

But Xi is obsessed with making China number 1 and toppling the US and he understands that to do that he must build a massive stable middle class.

China lucked out Xi and not a Putin or Trump type got power
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Xi is not a dictator.
The current form of government in China is oligarchy.
You seem to like China. Go live there.
 
Librtlover said:
While there is no such thing as a total capitalist country, one has to admit that America is the closet thing to be considered a capitalist nation.

On the other hand, there are such nations to be considered total Communist nations, such as N. Korea, China and Cuba.

American Democrats, Socialists, and Communists who adhere to every anti American Socialist-Communist ideology can and should be labeled as such, and in no way would they ever come close to supporting or engaging in America's mostly Capitalist society-culture.
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North Korea operates primarily on Juche (self-reliance) and a hereditary dynastic system rather than traditional Marxist-Leninist communism.

Removal of Communist References: North Korea removed references to communism from its constitution, replacing them with Juche and Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism
“Is North Korea communist”, we have another question. Do they actually want communism? Are they ideologically communists? North Korea was formerly a Marxist-Leninist state along anti-revisionist lines (which means it shared some parts of Maoism) and, for the longest time, portraits of Marx and Lenin could be seen in Kim Il Sung Square .


www.lowyinstitute.org

If North Korea isn't communist, then what is it?

The Lowy Institute is an independent international policy think tank based in Sydney, Australia.
www.lowyinstitute.org www.lowyinstitute.org
 
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