• certified sinonist
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    8 months ago

    you do automatically assume countries that aren’t capitalist are authoritarian, though. democracy isn’t just voting between two major parties at election time.

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      8 months ago

      No, the system to distribute goods and services ex capitalism, socialism, communism. Are not the same things as who’s in charge and why. Ex Democracy authoritarian.

      A state will usually pick one from column a and one from column b. And you can mix it up however you like.