US-SSR wrote:
If by "True Socialism" is meant control of the means of production by workers, then yes, that is a true statement. When did workers control the means of production in Russia? China? Cuba? North Korea? or Venezuela?
Democratic socialism as practiced in, say, Scandinavia, on the other hand is a roaring success on all counts. But for some reason those who run down so-called "socalism" in despotic and/or populist nations never are able to come up with a cogent critique of Scandinavian-style democratic socialism other than that taxes are high.
Scandinavia is NOT socialist.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydor ... a9ec5774ad
"I would like to make one thing clear," Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said recently in a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2016/02/17/po ... socialism/
Social Democracy is NOT Democratic Socialism!
Social Democracy combines pro business policies with extensive welfare.
But the vast majority of the economy remains owned by private companies.
Social Democracy certainly can work. But it is not socialism.