Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
by ImprobableTruth on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:53AM
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A lot of these were advocated for and often implemented by (originally) socialist democratic parties so I can see where you're coming from, but I think that a 'real' socialist democracy would be going a good step further.
Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
by rswail on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:04AM
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The ideals of socialism are that the means of production are owned by the community. So it owns all industry as well.
Communism says that there isn't any individual property.
Scandinavian countries have never been socialist.
Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
by atq2119 on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:10AM
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The rate of state ownership of capital is fairly high in the Nordics, though. In that sense, they're relatively socialist countries.
Maybe they're not "really socialist", but then by that standard, is there a "really capitalist" country? Even the US, which is probably the most capitalist "developed" country, has some state ownership of production.
Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
by approxim8ion on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:20AM
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state ownership and community ownership aren't the same thing either, to be fair.
But given existing systems it's probably the closest one can get.
Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year
by Mauricebranagh on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:35AM
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Its not "free" its free at the point of use, its paid for out of general taxation.
Otherwise Bismarck's 19th century Prussia would be socialist
[0] I think Finland is now charging a small tuition fee, at least for non-EU students.