You can dress it up in whatever jargon you like, but the basics are the same. A philosophy of individual rights, or a philosophy of collectivism.
These philosophies will generate both the economic and political systems that naturally outgrow from them.
It's not a coincidence that the kind of people who advocate centralized ownership, or even centralized control, of an economy usually end up also imposing a centralized political system.
In fact, far from being a coincidence, it's pretty much inevitable. It's nice to raise countries like Sweden as examples of the ideal "middle way," but in practice, it might not be as wonderful as the advertising says.
Trying to discuss the consequences of a philosophy while ignoring the philosophy itself doesn't get you anywhere.
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- more proof (at least for HZ ultraright ideologues) of the depravity of 'socialist Europe"