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Oh absolutely, of course that's the point and it's why Orwell was a democratic socialist. In democratic mixed economies we have some redistribution, and some private property, and some state capitalism all mixed together. In truth all 'western' economies are mixed, not even the USA is anywhere even close to being purely capitalist; not even the most socially minded European economies are anywhere even close to being purely socialist.


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