• untorquer@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      OP’s post is about a Danish author. Your video is about Norway where democratic socialism existed before the north sea oil boom of the 1960’s.

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        2 months ago

        Social democracy, kinda. Not democratic socialism.

        You can tell from the private ownership of 65% of industry and the

        FUCKING MONARCHY

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          2 months ago

          Parliamentarianism has been the prevalent rule since 1884.

          American presidents demand significantly more governing power and authority.

          Yeah, I’ll agree that recently privatization has become commonplace.

          Still weird to use Norwegian economics as evidence for why the Danish author is bad. Charitably you’re completely ignoring Sweden, Finland, and Iceland if you want to consider the larger cultural-economic group.

          IMO a broader argument is that the scandinavian system still runs on the same capitalist structures as the rest of the world, and therefore is bound by the same faults as capitalist countries everywhere. Namely unsustainable growth relying on borders to extract from the global south while simultaneously developing artificial scarcity locally to boost the upwardness of a trend line in our collective delusion.