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It's always a bit amusing hearing outsiders refer to Scandinavia as 'socialist'. This is very far from the truth. In Norway, the Labour party has been in power
by halvsjur 14y ago
It's always a bit amusing hearing outsiders refer to Scandinavia as 'socialist'. This is very far from the truth.
In Norway, the Labour party has been in power for much of the last hundred years, seems reasonable that it would be quite the socialist haven. In reality, in the last fifty years, anyone rising to power in the Labour party has had to be pre-approved by the CIA (well documented in e.g. self biographies of the people involved).
As it turns out, unsurprisingly, this has not been very conducive to any form of socialism.
- roschdal 14y ago> In reality, in the last fifty years, anyone rising to power in the Labour party has had to be pre-approved by the CIA (well documented in e.g. self biographies of the people involved Do you have any URL to document this?
- geon 14y ago> hearing outsiders refer to Scandinavia as 'socialist' I think this is mostly from the perspective of the US. To them, we are extremely socialist with our free healthcare and free education. You know, just a few years ago, anyone could come to sweden and have a free university education.