Give an example of a country that displays characteristics of multiple totalitarian or “flirting with totalitarianism” social systems.

China. It is still officially a communist country, but it allows private property and offers some level of protection of individual rights. In this sense it is no longer totalitarian (although it is with respect to some of its minorities, such as the Uyghurs). But it still has socialist elements with a large sector of publicly owned property. And with a clique of Communist Party officials maintaining strict control, the country also shows oligarchical tendencies. The Communist Party leadership also promotes nationalism, wanting to return China to some of its alleged past glory, an indication that it may revert back to totalitarianism, this time of the fascist kind.

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