[Communism Cringe]

On 1/22/2020 at 7:32 PM, Kiril Kolus said:

It's interesting to me how the naysayers always pick the authoritarian regimes to decry leftism/communism. You never discuss the DemSoc policies of countries like Sweden or the success of socialist policies elsewhere. I always found it as an interesting form of cherry-picking, though admittedly in your defense the stalinist-leninist regime did use the label first.

Sweden is not a Socialist Country though. It is a social democracy, which is capitalist. The means of production are controlled by mostly private industry and partly by the state; they are not controlled by the worker. Nor has the commodity form been abolished. Neither does Sweden have "socialist policies", but rather social democratic policies. You could say Sweden was moving towards socialism under Olof Palme in the late 70s and early 80s, but that stopped with his assassination in 1986.