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> Which Scandinavian countries are socialist? The workers don't own the means of production. In general the Scandinavian countries are capitalist with strong s
by ardy42 6y ago
> Which Scandinavian countries are socialist? The workers don't own the means of production. In general the Scandinavian countries are capitalist with strong safety nets.
That's what we're calling socialism nowadays (e.g. pretty much anything that's not laissez faire capitalism). That mushiness is what leads some people to think they can condemn social democracy with the example of Soviet central planning.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> That's what we're calling socialism nowadays It is (and even the more moderate forms found in other parts of the developed West including the US are) also what Karl Marx called “socialism”, though of a subtype (“bourgeois socialism”) of which he explicitly disapproved as doomed to reinforce and revert to, rather than defeat, the dominant system of his day which he labelled “capitalism”.