What has replaced communism

One characteristic of a totalitarian state is that all organized elements of civil society are either suppressed or made into state instruments. That has not happened in the democracies.

True, even though I am not fond of the PRI, they never devolved into totalitarianism.

I didn’t know that, thank you.

To me, ghetto = “drab part of town primarily populated by working class minorities.”

Slum = “cardboard shanty town, shitty brown water, garbage everywhere.”

Sorry about the hijack.

Global capitalism dependent heavily on risky financial speculation has followed, but that too will fall apart.