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Marcy Kaptur: What kind of an economic system would you call that?

On the recordDecember 12, 2011
What kind of an economic system would you call that?
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Kaptur questions the fairness of China's economic system, referring to it as 'market Leninism.'

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