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'''Statism''' is a political or economic position in which the role of the [[state]] is deemed to be very important. This could - for example - manifest itself in directly state-controlled enterprises or economic planning directed by the [[government]].
'''Statism''' is a political or economic position in which the role of the [[state]] is deemed to be paramount. This could - for example - manifest itself in directly state-controlled enterprises or economic planning directed by the [[government]].
{{cquote|'''A statist system—whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or “welfare” type—is based on the . . . government’s unlimited power, which means: on the rule of brute force. The differences among statist systems are only a matter of time and degree; the principle is the same. Under statism, the government is not a policeman, but a legalized criminal that holds the power to use physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally disarmed, defenseless victims.'''
==Examples of Statist nations and regimes ==
'''Nothing can ever justify so monstrously evil a theory. Nothing can justify the horror, the brutality, the plunder, the destruction, the starvation, the slave-labor camps, the torture chambers, the wholesale slaughter of statist dictatorships. <small>-- “War and Peace,”
The Objectivist Newsletter, Oct. 1962, 44.''' <ref>[http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/statism.html The Objectivist Newsletter, Oct. 1962]</ref> </small> }}
==Examples of Statist Nations and Regimes ==
* [[People's Republic of China]]
* [[People's Republic of China]]
* [[Venezuela]]
* [[Venezuela]]
== References ==
{{reflist}}