More important, liberal capitalism as practised in the West today does actually have some defects.
"Self-reliance" as practised in North Korea used to be a popular concept in poor countries.
The reformist economists think that Cuba should move towards market socialism as practised in Vietnam or China, but others dismiss the parallel, citing cultural and geographical differences.
To be sure, it would be a big step in the direction of "socialist health care" as practised in the rest of the developed world.
That is particularly true of market-based capitalism as practised in America, which has increasingly been regarded as the superior model at least until Enron went bust.
In America "religious indifference" was rapidly becoming the rule, and "the strict modes of Christianity as practised in Europe" were being lost.
There are established ways of dealing with dangerous mutants and extra-terrestrials: infect them with the common cold (War of the Worlds); freeze them (The Blob); incinerate them with flame throwers (the universal cure as practised in Them!).
The BJP's ideologues maintain that secularism as practised in India has denied equal treatment to Hindus, who make up four-fifths of the population, and exposed Hindu culture to such threats as conversion and Islamic fundamentalism.
Cultural studies as practised in Birmingham was in part inspired by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who wondered why working people would vote to cede control to corporations and see their own rights and freedoms curtailed?
It was no use Dr Williams protesting that he was not talking about the "brutal and inhuman and unjust" forms of sharia as practised in Saudi Arabia or countries where women are stoned for adultery if they are raped.
Either way, the government would pocket a much bigger share of the proceeds.These tax disputes and threats of expulsions smack of "resource nationalism" as practised in Venezuela and Bolivia.
