People talk like social democracy is "midway between" capitalism and actual socialism or communism and that if we got a "Nordic-style" welfare state we'd be "on the way" to socialism but this is honestly questionable
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The Nordic model has existed for a while now and private business owners and landlords remain quite numerous and show few signs of fear that they will be imminently rounded up and guillotined
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You have stuff like 30% of the Norwegian workforce being public sector employees, which is a lot - roughly double the 14% in the United States - but not the night and day difference you would expect even from a country "on the way" to abolishing private ownership entirely
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It just seems so pointless to have this fight Bernie Sanders' proposed policies objectively *are not* socialist, they're FDR-style "saving capitalism from itself" measures, which is openly the goal of Nordic governments (to stabilize the existing market economy, not overturn it)
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We can argue about whether they would be an improvement over the status quo - which I agree they would - without talking like they're a stepping stone to a new October Revolution, which seems ridiculously unlikely and which most regular voters don't actually want
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I _wish_ we were socialist.
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The problem is it's both his most fervent opponents AND SUPPORTERS who seem to insist on having the discussion about Marxism and seizing the means of production even though no matter what a Sanders presidency will not lead to that
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Shhh, we may be able to achieve communism easier with his policies.
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