Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery
yucandu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The thing is most countries don’t go around declaring themselves “we are a capitalist nation, we follow the capitalist ideology”, so this seems pointlessly vague.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Although the US does go around saying we’re not capitalist and we’re not socialist even as we give hundreds of billions USD to corporate interests and have huge socialized programs like the US armed forces and the interstate highway system.
In fact, the Republicans disparage the Democrats by accusing them of being communist, when they totally are not, even the SDAs.
yucandu@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
But then even most self-described socialists use the catch phrase “socialism isn’t when the government does stuff” these days. Even though it is, if the government was democratically elected.
And OP said the World, not America. There’s plenty of mixed economies around the world that are doing just fine, arguably better than any other form of economy.