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Re:Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electri... by cmdkeen on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:56AM (#11448264)
Sweden is at best Social Democratic, and not all of its political parties subscribe to that. It certainly hasn't been through mass nationalisations of industry or utilities.

Socialism is the workers controlling the means of production, not anything deemed vaguely left wing by American standards.

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Re:Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electri... by bmm6o on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:11PM (#11448399)
Fair enough. It's hard to remember the actual definition of "socialism" when in the US it's used to slander whatever vaguely progressive policy someone don't like, even when you know they're not using the word correctly.
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