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To: tejek who wrote (320159)	1/11/2007 2:25:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575747

Totalitarian and authoritarian are not exact synonyms. They both imply centralized control. But a liberal dictator or monarch would not be a totalitarian, and a democracy that controlled almost all aspects of your life would be totalitarian. Typically the two go together, but there is a reason why one word will not work to define both. "Totalitarianism is a term employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior." en.wikipedia.org China is a totalitarian gov't with a growing capitalistic economic model. To the extent that it is allowing a real free market, it is becoming less totalitarian. A totally free market would be totally incompatible with totalitarianism. But China doesn't even have a very free market, let alone a totally free market. It only has a much freer market then it used to have. Also China has become less totalitarian over the years. China today is hardly the China of the period of the "Cultural Revolution". and with baseball, gov't can refuse to fund and subsidize sports stadiums. "I actually agree with that idea, but apparently for different reasons." No, its the same reason.........I just have two motivations.....one is yours and the other is restricting A-Rod's pay. The idea of publicly funded stadiums is only tangentially related to A-Rods pay. He would get paid a ton with no public finance of stadiums, as would many other athletes.