Market Authoritarianism: If you stay out of politics you are free to buy what you want. By shifting from Communist command economy to capitalism, China and Russia have switched to a far more efficient brand of authoritarianism. Democratic values are on the retreat across the globe. The citizenry has entered into an unspoken pact with the government, giving up certain rights and liberties in exchange for greater prosperity or the perception of better security. The forms and severity of the restrictions change from place to place.
A new paradigm of authoritarian capitalism represents a pact between governments and their middle class subjects. As long as citizens consent to stay out of politics and keep to themselves, in return they receive all the creature comforts they desire ...Today's global liberal democratic order faces a significant challenge from the rise of nondemocratic great powers the West's old Cold War rivals, China and Russia, now operating under authoritarian capitalist rather than Communist regimes...
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Authoritarian Capitalism vs Free Market Liberal Democracy
Market Authoritarianism: If you stay out of politics you are free to buy what you want. By shifting from Communist command economy to capitalism, China and Russia have switched to a far more efficient brand of authoritarianism.
Democratic values are on the retreat across the globe. The citizenry has entered into an unspoken pact with the government, giving up certain rights and liberties in exchange for greater prosperity or the perception of better security. The forms and severity of the restrictions change from place to place.
A new paradigm of authoritarian capitalism represents a pact between governments and their middle class subjects. As long as citizens consent to stay out of politics and keep to themselves, in return they receive all the creature comforts they desire.
The cost is small, insofar as the average citizen is concerned-but as soon as activists and journalists get involved, the pact has swift, deadly consequences. Crackdowns on journalists in China, detentions of political dissidents in Singapore, and thuggish intimidation and assassinations in Russia are all part and parcel of this system, but even so, the pact seems more popular, and more successful than ever.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Western commentators were quick to assert that liberal democracy and capitalism had won the day. The truth was more complex. Authoritarian governments in China, Singapore, and later, Russia, deftly separated democracy from capitalism, offering their citizens a choice. They could embrace all the comforts of a consumerist society, so long as they surrendered their civil liberties.
Today’s global liberal democratic order faces a significant challenge from the rise of nondemocratic great powers the West’s old Cold War rivals, China and Russia, now operating under authoritarian capitalist rather than Communist regimes.
Authoritarian Capitalism has certainly been a common form of government in the 20th century - Pre WWI Germany, Imperial Japan, Pinochet’s Chile, Suharto’s Indonesia, Taiwan etc. For the most part, these countries are trending to more democracy and openness. Latin America, besides Venezuela and Cuba, has considerably more liberal and open political systems.
Moreover, market authoritarianism did thrive in the Cold War years, mostly because the US was so eager to support any anti-communist regime.
Some believe these countries could ultimately become liberal democracies through a combination of internal development, increasing affluence and outside influence.
Alternatively, they may have enough weight to create a new non-democratic but economically advanced Second World. They could establish a powerful authoritarian-capitalist order that allies political elites, industrialists and the military; that is nationalist in orientation; and that participates in the global economy on its own terms, as imperial Germany and imperial Japan did.
By shifting from Communist command economy to capitalism, China and Russia have switched to a far more efficient brand of authoritarianism. Although the rise of these authoritarian capitalist great powers would not necessarily lead to a non-democratic hegemony or war, it might imply that the near-total dominance of liberal democracy since the Soviet Union's collapse will be short-lived and that a universal "democratic peace" is still far off.
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Inverted Totalitarianism;
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism - ...a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics. Every natural resource and every living being is commodified and exploited to collapse as the citizenry is lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess consumerism and sensationalism...
...a planned economy is "an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc." but a command economy, while also having this type of regulation, necessarily has substantial public ownership of industry...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy
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We are just now trying to make up and name how market states work under newly converted totalitarian states. MarketStateAuthoritarianism or simply Market_Authoritarianism, is my current favorite.
Market Authoritarianism: If you stay out of politics you are free to buy what you want. By shifting from Communist command economy to capitalism, China and Russia have switched to a far more efficient brand of authoritarianism. Democratic values are on the retreat across the globe. The citizenry has entered into an unspoken pact with the government, giving up certain rights and liberties in exchange for greater prosperity or the perception of better security. The forms and severity of the restrictions change from place to place.
A new paradigm of authoritarian capitalism represents a pact between governments and their middle class subjects. As long as citizens consent to stay out of politics and keep to themselves, in return they receive all the creature comforts they desire ...Today's global liberal democratic order faces a significant challenge from the rise of nondemocratic great powers the West's old Cold War rivals, China and Russia, now operating under authoritarian capitalist rather than Communist regimes...
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Sale-Trading-Democracy-Security/dp/0465015395/
Inverted Totalitarianism - a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics. Every natural resource and every living being is commodified and exploited to collapse - as the citizenry is lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess consumerism and sensationalism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Illiberal Democracy - a governing system in which, although elections take place, citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy
...There are two ways that there can be authoritarianism in a libertarian society. The first is a natural outgrowth of the libertarian philosophy, there could inherently be something about libertarianism that makes it conducive to authoritarianism. The second is a system imposed incidentally on top of libertarianism by there being a demand for that system...
Market Authoritarianism
http://www.insulaqui.com/the-blog/market-authoritarianism
Authoritarian Capitalism, or Illiberal Capitalism - an economic system in which a capitalist market economy exists alongside an authoritarian government. Related to and overlapping with state capitalism, a system in which the state undertakes commercial activity, authoritarian capitalism combines private property and the functioning of market forces with repression of dissent, restrictions on freedom of speech and either a lack of elections or an electoral system with a single dominant political party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism
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