Not exact matches
And they
do permit many of the efficiencies of free enterprise in large sectors of the
economy and so tend to have a better standard of living than comparable countries which are full
socialist.
Even if women are
done with middle aged men, they still need them to be
doing the lion shares of the work in the
economy and pay the taxes to fund the government
socialist programs that benefit women at the expense of men.
An important point to note is that the concept of a country is fairly new; I have read, and agree, that modern states
did not become such an important unit of human organization until the Great Depression in the 1930s; at that time the problems facing them - broken
economies and
socialist movements - the country level government was the only organization existing that could solve these problems while the existing power structure stayed in power.
Given that China still claims to be a
socialist economy and Western countries
do not, it is hardly surprising that China is more willing and able to enact such policies.
Kwame Nkrumah
did run Ghana's
economy on
socialist / communist theory that
did drive Ghana into unfathomable problems.
I don't know why any sane and rational person would chose to believe the AGW hypothesis unless they have somnething to gain from it; be it grant money or control over the levers of society and the
economy or support for their
socialist world view.
Oh, Wall Street, Bankers, Hedge Funds, and the deregulation of the financial industry wrecked the Western
Economies's, particularly in those countries in Europe that don't want to build things (all countries in Europe not called Germany, you know the trade union, single payer
socialist country).