In Part I of our series on Socialism in the Modern World, we looked at the tragic story of Venezuela.
Today, we’re going to look at what we can learn from the Nordic nations. And the first thing to understand, as I explain in this interview, is that these nations are only socialist if the definition is watered down.
As I noted in the interview, real socialism is based on government ownership and control of the “means of production.” But Nordic countries don’t have government-owned factories, government-controlled allocation of resources, or government regulation of prices.
In other words, those nations are not socialist (government ownership), they’re not fascist (government control), and they’re not even corporatist (cronyism).
So what are they?
In a column for the Washington Post, Max Boot accurately describes them as free-market welfare states.
…rigging elections and locking up or killing political opponents. This is one model…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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