market communism

English

Noun

market communism (uncountable)

  1. (politics) A form of communism that also engages to a limited extent with the free market.
    • 1988, The Economist (volume 306, issues 7532-7539, page 13)
      Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.
    • 2011, Steven Rosefielde, ‎Masaaki Kuboniwa, ‎Satoshi Mizobata, Two Asias: The Emerging Postcrisis Divide (page 432)
      These second tier businesses too might prefer the luxury of rentier satisficing, but lacking “godfathers,” are compelled to behave more or less like neoclassical profit-seekers. They are the “market” heart of Chinese market communism; []
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