07-31-2007, 07:12 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
|
| Partisan  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 10,613 Country:  Points: 34,046, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by Katczinsky  Hear hear, Gary. Though I disagree with you that the UK is 'heavily socialist'. | I guess that's an overstatement. It used to be a lot more socialist when I was growing up.
After WW2 most of the major industries in Britain were run by the state (steel, coal, railways, airlines, cars, airports, etc etc).
Thankfully Thatcher dismantled all of that and returned those industries to the private sector!
The reality is that every advanced economy has a mix of socialist and capitalist policies. Including the US, China, Russia or anywhere else.
There is no such thing as an entirely socialist state (maybe the Myanmar Republic).
|