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Looks to me like the Swedish people did, in fact, come to the conclusion their socialist policy didn't work and reversed it via the normal political process. Ac
by vec 9y ago
Looks to me like the Swedish people did, in fact, come to the conclusion their socialist policy didn't work and reversed it via the normal political process. According to the wiki, the Social Democrats retook power three years later and didn't attempt to reintroduce it.
That looks to me like pretty compelling historical evidence against the hypothesis that socialist experiments must necessarily slide down the slippery slope to full-on communism.
- goty2 9y agoIf anything the Nordic model and social democracy has failed not because it turned into communism, but because it only takes one government to undermine the system and privatize everything. Sweden today is liberal to the extent that it is regularly featured as an example in The Economist on how to privatize more things in the UK.