North German Realm wrote:LiberNovusAmericae wrote:There is a difference. Free market capitalism calls for competition between rival companies, not a handful of oligarchs being handed entire monopolies for pennies on the dollar, after communism comes to an end.
As for those backroom deals, they can be banned, especially if something is going on like fraud.
Wouldn't be much of a free market if you ban the market from doing something though, is it?
Completely free markets do not exist. Only ancaps believe in them. Liber might be more free market than you or me but they are not an ancap.
Economic freedom is relative.
And in fact most Post Soviet States have poor economic freedom. The government rigging the market in favor of government officials, transferring government property to them via corrupt deals and the like is not a very free market.