Norway, Sweden and Denmark are not socialist by normal definitions; they’re social democracies with market economies coupled with strong welfare states (in particular, they are _not_ democratic socialist states; social democracy means something different).

There does seem to be a tendency in the US these days to use ‘socialism’ to describe anyone who doesn’t actively want to kick poor people, but the Nordics are far from any formal definition of socialism.

If only the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had some friendly Internet person to set them straight as they got confused between socialism and communism too.

Do the Scandinavian states control the means of production? If not, they are not socialist but social democratic.

The Indian constitution proclaims India is a socialist country making Narendra Modi the most prominent socialist in the world though somehow other socialists aren’t too happy about it.

>Communism thrives and is growing in America!

A disheartening thought. Are things really that bad in USA?