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  Alex, democracy is merely a term for a system of government by which the people elect their own leaders and empower them to govern. It has nothing whatever to do with the economic systems with which many people seem to confuse it.
  
  To answer your question: what is democracy worth? Millions have died fighting for it, the nation which spectacularly squandered it in 1933 but regained it after 1945 would regard it as most precious.
  
  China may be turning into a mixed economy after generations of being a command economy but that is nothing to do with communism or democracy. Although China's self-perpetuating elite is communist in name only, it still rules through a totalitarian system of repression, and true democracy, or even a degree of political freedom, is light-years away.
  
  Tom, your last sentence elevates fatuity to an art form.

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