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I think that the parent poster was most likely referring to democratic socialism as practiced in much of the EU and Nordic countries as opposed to totalitarian

I think that the parent poster was most likely referring to democratic socialism as practiced in much of the EU and Nordic countries as opposed to totalitarian communism or Stalinism as practiced in the countries that you listed.

sorenn111 7y ago
Those EU and Nordic countries are not democratic socialist though. The Prime Minister of Denmark repudiated Bernie's comments saying so. They even say they are capitalist with strong safety nets, which is not socialism.
ZhuanXia 7y ago
The Nordic countries are not socialist. They have not seized the means of production and handed it to a poorly-incentivized bureaucracy that claims to speak for the public. If you have private ownership of production you are still capitalist. All the Nordic countries do this. They are not so much socialists as welfare states. If we must have a welfare state, I would much prefer the "citizens as shareholders of the country" model with a basic income, rather than the overweening paternalism of current welfare states.