Authoritarian Capitalist Ideology
An Authoritarian Capitalist Ideology is an Economic-Political Ideology that combines a capitalist ideology with an authoritarian ideology.
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- It can be implemented in an Authoritarian Capitalist Country.
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- See: Capitalist Free-Market, Economic System, Capitalist Market Economy, Authoritarian Government, State Capitalism, State (Polity), Dominant-Party System.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism Retrieved:2021-6-28.
- Authoritarian capitalism, or illiberal capitalism, is 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.
Countries commonly referred to as being authoritarian capitalist states include China since the economic reforms, Hungary under Viktor Orbán, Russia under Vladimir Putin, Chile under Augusto Pinochet, Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew and Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as fascist regimes and military dictatorships during the Cold War. Nazi Germany has also been described as an authoritarian capitalist, especially for its privatization policy in the 1930s.
Political scientists disagree on the long-run sustainability of authoritarian capitalism, with arguments both for and against the long-term viability of political repression alongside a capitalist free-market economic system.
- Authoritarian capitalism, or illiberal capitalism, is 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.
2021
- Yuen Yuen Ang. (2018). "Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics - Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms." In Foreign Affairs, May/June 2018
- QUOTE: ... If anything, under the current regime of President Xi Jinping, the Chinese government appears more authoritarian, not less. ..
... As Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad put it in 1992, “authoritarian stability” has enabled prosperity, whereas democracy has brought “chaos and increased misery.” But not all autocracies deliver economic success. In fact, some are utterly disastrous, including China under Mao. ...
... Chinese politics, therefore, requires first and foremost an appreciation of China’s bureaucracy. That bureaucracy is composed of two vertical hierarchies — the party and the state — replicated across the five levels of government: central, provincial, county, city, and township. These crisscrossing lines of authority produce what the China scholar Kenneth Lieberthal has termed a “matrix” structure. In formal organizational charts, the party and the state are separate entities, with Xi leading the party and Premier Li Keqiang heading up the administration and its ministries. In practice, however, the two are intertwined. The premier is also a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party’s top body, which currently has seven members. And at the local level, officials often simultaneously hold positions in both hierarchies. For example, a mayor, who heads the administration of a municipality, is usually also the municipality’s deputy chief of party. Moreover, officials frequently move between the party and the state. For instance, mayors may become party secretaries and vice versa. ...
- QUOTE: ... If anything, under the current regime of President Xi Jinping, the Chinese government appears more authoritarian, not less. ..
2018
- https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-got-china-wrong-now-what/2018/02/28/39e61c0e-1caa-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html
- QUOTE: … Xi’s touting of Chinese-style illiberal state capitalism as “a new option for other countries” …