I guess we have to go through this again, but "Nordic-style social democracy" is not socialism, it's capitalism The Nordic countries are not socialist, they are capitalist They have landlords, they have investors, they have a stock market, they have big bankshttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1231019619198132224 …
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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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It's not questionable - it's utter bullshit. Those are two completely different things, even though the word "social" is in both. It's a bit like saying if you travel to the US, you will inevitably end up in New York. Makes no sense.
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There were/are definitely some soft Marxist communists, especially essentially middle class intellectuals, who did in the mid 20th see it this way but that by no means makes them right
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