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?
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Peaty@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoChina is closer to neo-mercantilism due to the level if direct state involvement in private business.
bioemerl@kbin.social 11 months ago
Peaty@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Authoritarian, which you already mentioned.
ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
Peaty@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.