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In reply to the discussion: "Sorry, It's Not a 'Law of Capitalism' That You Pay Your Employees as Little as Possible. It's..." [View all]branford
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I assume that you would only want a fully socialist economic system under the auspices of a democracy. Therefore, it must survive the slings and arrows of those who oppose it, just like any first-world capitalist system, from Sweden and Norway to the United States and Britain. Socialist economics imposed with the consent of the governed would be anathema to liberal values.
As you admit, full-scale socialism has in fact been tried, and the results have been disastrous. You can make all the excuses you want, but history has not judged these experiments too kindly. Most importantly, nothing is stopping you and your ideological fellows from convincing our country or any other nation to abandon capitalism and give socialism a try.
However, even very peaceful, rich, productive, democratic, left-wing social democracies with no MIC to speak of, like those in Scandinavia, who already have some truly socialist institutions, are moving towards increasing levels of capitalism due to the ever rising costs of their comprehensive social benefit system (and accompanying negative birth rates). If countries like Sweden and Norway cannot be convinced of the value of a more comprehensive socialist system, who will?