Socialism is not the same as a MIXED Economy

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33. Exactly

No nation on earth would fit the ops definition strictly. The Nordic countries would be surprised to hear that their social democrats were secretly capitalists when they built an economy that expanded labor control and the welfare state.

Domestically, this would discount American socialist movements in the new left that have become part of the Democratic coalition. All you hippies, war protesters and aging Black Panthers who were organized by socialists haven’t understood what you were doing apparently.

Calling for socialism and accepting reforms is a LONG understood strategy very different than demanding incrementalism and settling for scraps or a desperate rear-guard to the status quo. The labor unions decline seems to track with the vilification of the word Socialist.