Rebirth of State Capitalism?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/democracy_a_flickering_star.html

Democratic capitalism, it would appear, now has a great new rival -- autocratic capitalism. In Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, nations are beginning to imitate the autocrats of China and Russia, even as some in the 1930s sought to ape fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.