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> history of revolutionary communism everywhere it's been tried. "revolutionary" is a clever way of excluding all of the successful models of socialism - like
by cwkoss 5y ago
> history of revolutionary communism everywhere it's been tried.
"revolutionary" is a clever way of excluding all of the successful models of socialism - like the scandanavian countries which consistently rank as the happiest countries on the planet.
- paisawalla 5y agoYes, it's a good way to stick to the cases where communism has been tried at 10-100M+ populations, and not get distracted by tiny, ethnically homogeneous, and as-arguable-as-not socialist countries like Norway or Sweden. Those too are hardly models for the US, but not for the reason that they required mass slaughter of one-third their populations.
- lowkey_ 5y agoAs a Swedish citizen, I would like to note that we are not socialist — basically nobody in the country wants to be claimed as some example of socialism. The highest income tax rate is nearly equivalent to that of the US. :)