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And I made the same argument as you! :)

Practically speaking, whenever communism or some flavor of it was tried in scale they ended up running a large monopolar corporation, which they called "the state". It was state capitalism because the state owned all the capital.

Capitalism, is short for "private capital" a strange form of communism where anyone can own the means of production if they figure out how to.

The United States, for all its flaws, is really the only country where ANYBODY, and I mean ANYBODY, with enough gumption can become a major owner of capital.




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