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That's unique point. Even with Mamdani's win, I was seeing democracy and not exactly socialism. You introduced me to a bunch of new political science terms I didn't know about. W man! <3

Hard to look at China and say they aren't outperforming pure corporate capitalism. We turned capitalism into greed and cronyism.

I wish

What I question, specific to the UK, if you look at state vs. Private ownership, we’ve also been moving in the opposite direction. Most utilities, rail, water, gas, steel etc. were state owned, the state sold them off from the 1980s onward. In most places there’s a weird hybrid where the state pays private contractors for services that were previously ‘in house’. The result is a lot of scamming and corruption and a lot of private profit taken from what’s still seen as public services. For the record, I think this system clearly sucks but your article doesn’t appear to recognise this relationship. Blair = Thatcher