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Originally Posted by lem144
Um, we've never had a capitalist economy. Maybe in agrarian times, before the Industrial Revolution and all. But don't fool yourself into thinking we were ever a true "free market". Even then we had systems in place to divide land, build infrastructure.
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Right, I agree. Just as Russia/USSR wasn't really truly Communist.
Of course we're not purely capitalist. But isn't the idea to keep government involvement and regulation to a necesssary minimum?