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Like in most of Western Europe?
by WJW 9y ago
Like in most of Western Europe?
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- BjoernKW 9y agoThere's no socialism in Western Europe, at least not by common standards. It's called social democracy. In contrast to socialism the means of production are largely privately owned and there's no single-party system.
- ptaipale 9y agoWestern Europe is not "socialist countries". The traditional meaning of a socialist state is "means of production are controlled by the state". None of the countries in Western Europe work like this. They are market economies. What people often don't understand is, by the way, that the supposedly "more socialist" countries in North Europe, like Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, are in fact in many ways more market driven and have very free economies, compared to e.g. "non-socialist" Southern Europe. But of course, in all countries the politics meddles with the economy.