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minus-squarePeaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agoChina is closer to neo-mercantilism due to the level if direct state involvement in private business.
minus-squareChrisLicht@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoAs a nationalist economic policy, neo-mercantilism integrates well with the fascist economic model, particularly in this age when the masses are so accustomed to foreign goods that they might find the explicit notion of autarky alienating.
minus-squarePeaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoYes but ideologically China is not aligned with fascism at all. They are on paper still pretending to be Marxists. Fascism is opposed to Marxism.
minus-squarebioemerl@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoAnd what do you call an authoritarian ethnic state that has co opted capital to ensure and spread state control over public and private life?
minus-squarePeaty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoAuthoritarian, which you already mentioned.
China is closer to neo-mercantilism due to the level if direct state involvement in private business.
As a nationalist economic policy, neo-mercantilism integrates well with the fascist economic model, particularly in this age when the masses are so accustomed to foreign goods that they might find the explicit notion of autarky alienating.
Yes but ideologically China is not aligned with fascism at all. They are on paper still pretending to be Marxists. Fascism is opposed to Marxism.
And what do you call an authoritarian ethnic state that has co opted capital to ensure and spread state control over public and private life?
Authoritarian, which you already mentioned.