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Regarding USA Today's Opinion on "China then and now: 20 years after Tiananmen, Chinese democracy flags"
by
Sylvia Bokor
(June 9, 2009)
[CapMag.com]
Sylvia Bokor sent the following in to USA Today:
USA Today's opinion writer calls the vicious totalitarianism of China "authoritarian capitalism." The use of this phrase so evidently confuses economic and political power that one must wonder whether such usage is another socialist attack on capitalism or whether the writer is so totally ignorant of what capitalism is. Capitalism is not merely the production of goods---especially the making of goods without regard for the political climate it exists in. Slaves also make goods. That does not mean they exemplify capitalism.
It would have been a welcome blow for freedom had the writer identified the difference between political and economic power. Political power is the force of the gun. A strong government is a limited government. Economic power is the result of thought and effort that produces values. A strong economy is an economy completely free of coercion.
It is not "democracy" that China needs but a representative republic which limits government to protecting individual rights, leading to laissez-faire capitalism. Which is what we need here in the States as well.
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