Are Nordic countries really socialist?

[JCanete]

77. I don't just disagree. He literally contradicts himself by defining socialism the way he has in the

quote I gave you. And here you are justifying the use of socialism in reference to small -s socialism of funding generous safety net programs, so even as you rail against the term as incorrect you are allowing for different interpretations of the word in your own usage. Democratic socialists aren't the ones conflating these things. They have been clear about their platform, which is in line with your small-s socialism.

Besides, what is considered infrastructure or necessary components is all a matter of agreement. Car manufacture, the case could be made, is a matter of infrastructure. Health insurance could certainly be considered that way if one wanted to make the case, the same as roads. Health Care should not be chiefly relegated to for-profit industries. The internet...etc. also fall into the prevue of infrastructure.

The question is always about where the line is negotiated, or point to me a truly capitalistic nation among first world countries. I asked before, why does that term get no heat even though it doesn't truly represent us?

And as to whether or not these safetynet programs exist by virtue of econimic wealth rather than as a healthy perpetuator of that econoomic wealth, I would say that's well off the mark. That these nations do well while supporting these sorts of programs proves that this doesn't put them at an international disadvantage for doing so.