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> the young people talking about socialism almost universally mean the Nordic style social democracies It's just plain wrong to call us Nordics socialist. We h

• vidarh 5y ago
  Meanwhile, something like 1/3 of the market cap on the Oslo Stock Exchange is state owned, the second largest media group is owned by a public benefit corporation, the largest bank is owned 34% by the government and ~10% by a foundation with a public benefit mandate. At the same time Norway has a more expansive welfare system than most supposedly socialist countries. It's fair enough that they're not fully socialist by any means, but for a lot of socialists the Nordic model is far closer to what they want than e.g. China.
• distances 5y ago
  Indeed, but the Nordic approach is what the people talking of "socialism" usually mean. Not command economies.