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What bad consequences of socialism are never talked about?

• tomrod 5y ago
  I'm assuming the grandparent commentor is confusing communism with democratic socialist states? The Scandinavian states look pretty nice overall.
  • unmole 5y ago
    And you are confusing welfare states with socialism.
    • tomrod 5y ago
      I'm not, thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
      • unmole 5y ago
        No Nordic country describes itself as socialist. The Nordic welfare model is made possible by free markets and private enterprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model This conflation of a welfare state with democratic socialism is Bernie Bro level nonsense: https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-not-socialist/ https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-...
        • tomrod 5y ago
          Despite the PM not wishing to be seen adopting a US-negatively stereotyped moniker, the economy is democratic socialism. See the wiki article for more sources. Also, your wiki article[0] describes the Nordic model transition to socialism. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Sweden