I'm not so sure the thinly veilled preposition there ("big government" is the solution) actually holds on empirical basis - government-enterprise monoliths don't exactly have a great track record with these things.

It's not a proposition.

On an empirical basis, you'll find extreme examples of all situations, from full-on dictatures to company owned land masses. Whether it holds or not has to do with the specific country and its situation.

In a very real way, ideologies don't feed people, and usually it will be the reality of the country that nurtures appropriate philosophies, not the other way round (e.g. Chinese "communism" wouldn't have happened anywhere else, and you can't apply it to other countries willy nilly either)