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Re:Children's Railways of the Former USSR by ch4s3 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:15AM (#32260421)
I'm not sure any governments are "capitalistic" per se, though many embrace markets to varying extents. As the sibling comment points out there Nordics are all VERY market oriented (more-so than the US/Anglospehere) and have strong welfare states. As for the US it varies a lot state by state, and most of the really egregious shit is done by municipal governments.

But none of that really matters because the US/West was never carting people off to work camps for something their children let slip in school, which the USSR and GDR did for decades.

Re:Children's Railways of the Former USSR by galaxyLogic on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:03PM (#32283936)
Isn't it also true that in a truly capitalist system the capitalists (meaning people with capital, the rich) would be in power, meaning they could also "buy" the government?