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I was using another government as an example (as often Americans have trouble looking inwards).
Democracy: Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A political or social unit that has such a government.
Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
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A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.

I was refering to two governmental systems, democracy and communism, and those governments effects on global economies when they spread their respective forms of government. When Communist Russia (communist government and econemy) tried to "help" other nations to adopt communism, they were attempting to raise the economic compatability of the two nations or groups. When the econemies are intertwined, the larger, stronger econemy (Russia) is able to have an element of control or influence over the smaller econemy, and thus the government of the smaller country. This is also true of any form of government. A dictatorship will usually find trade and relations easier with another dictatorship. A democracy will find trade and relations much easier with a democracy.

We are talking about America and Iraq most recently in this. We heald elections in Iraq, obviously. Did we ask them what kind of government they wanted? Maybe a true democratic decision would have been to allow them to vote on what form of government they want. We made no such attempt. We (America) determined that a democracy was the best thing for them, and they were asked to either go along with it (vote) or they can stay home and not be involved in the process at all. Now that Iraq is becoming a democracy, they will no doubt open up trade with other democracies of the world in order to try and rebuild their destroyed econemy. They need to bring legitimate monies back into the Iraqi financial world. Who will they trade with? I'll bet you $5 that America will be first in line for oil, their most valuable natural resource. We have our soldiers guartding their oil as we speak. We will buy their oil at a negotiable price and they will get some money out of it.

The country that controls the oil spigot controls the world.