Quoting from https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-data-show-that-socialism-works https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-data-show-that-so... (referenc

Quoting from https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-data-show-that-socialism-works https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-data-show-that-so... (referenced a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25625762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25625762 ): > To counter the obvious success of the Nordics, some will define them as actually capitalist. The capitalism-or-socialism binary gets further complicated as debaters introduce terms like “welfare state capitalism,” “social democracy,” “democratic socialism,” “state capitalism,” “state socialism,” and more. This debate doesn’t get any clearer among self-identified socialists, as many have their own pet definitions. With such barriers in the discourse, how can we possibly measure how people experience socialism?