Burroughs depicts a terminal capitalist world: the deadly deceits of the market, big business, state control and technological terror, and the mass production of mindless subjects.

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Nominally socialist China is a capitalist nation, they quip, while Japan's market capitalism is actually the world's most successful socialist model in disguise, pointing with pride at the nation's narrow wealth gap, broad prosperity and bureaucrat-driven infrastructure spending that has paved their islands and endowed the nation with, among other things, an impressive rail network.

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But once the fight against diehard Marxism was won, an equally vicious one began between those who would truly open Russia to the world to market forces and the rule of law and those among the new capitalist oligarchy who prefer the rules of the jungle.

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