share my own personal experience of coming of age in this country, where it is and when it is that I began to see things change. But I'm curious by your impression. The fundamental difference between the Soviet Union and the United States is that the Soviet ideology encompassed both social and economic spheres. It was patently unworkable in the economic sense. I mean, the incentives were fundamentally perverse at an ideological level. In other words, it was an idea that sounded compelling, that in practice, actually could not work in the absence of a continuous compulsion of the population. Right. An overwhelming police state, an authoritarian system. Correct. Without an authoritarian police. Right. The situation in the United States is very different, in that sense. United States has an ideology and it has or had an economic system that went with that ideology that actually worked. Free enterprise capitalism. Free enterprise capitalism with all of its excesses, with all of its (47/96)
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