What are your preferred economic and political systems?

[mix]

Dream away.

[SDuderstadt]

1. democratic capitalism and...

a democratic republic.

[mix]

4. What would "democratic capitalism" look like?

A market system ruled by "the people"?

[SDuderstadt]

6. You've never heard of democratic capitalism?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_capitalism?wasRedirected=true

http://www.kellysite.net/

http://www.democratic-capitalism.com/

[Ken Burch]

2. Democracy(political, economic, and social)

with the influence of money removed as much as humanly possible.

[SDuderstadt]

3. Hear, hear...

Ken. If we had those, it would stop the RW dead in their tracks.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. No Shareholders that have 1.000,0000 votes

The shareholder thing is a joke now.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Democratic Europaean-type socialist.

mixed economy, with a role for the private sector, but the state playing the main role in public service provision. Public services valued over tax cuts.

Also an economy that is based on many industries, not just one or two, and in particular emphasizes production of useful goods and services, rather than finance and banking for their own sake.

The 'postwar consensus' in Britain, destroyed by Thatcherism, worked rather well IMO; so do the Scandinavian countries nowadays.