“Democracy sustains capitalism. Capitalism thrives in a democracy. And, right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant,” she said, referencing her rally last year on the White House Ellipse in Washington. “We used to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re dealing with right now in Donald Trump. And these titans of industry are not speaking up,”

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    Communism (at least the USSR kind) calls for the state to (among many other things) seize all business, not just a small part of it. Also the government is buying stakes in businesses, not seizing them without compensation. State intervention in the economy isn’t necessarily or even usually communism, and for example it’s something fascists like to do.