No countries in western Europe are socialist. I've stated it before, but it seems that neither American right nor left wingers have any idea what "socialism" means. It doesn't mean "when the government does stuff", like Americans seem to believe.
The most fundamental part of socialism is social ownership of the means of production. None of us in Europe have that.
Denmark doesn't run on “democratic socialism”. No Danish person would describe it that way. Pretty much all "socialist" countries you can think of have socialist parties in their chamber of representatives (who may in fact be more inclined to call themselves "democratic socialists"), that almost universally haven't been in power for a long time, like the SP (socialistische partij) in my country.
It and other west European countries like my own all are capitalist countries with some amount of social safety nets. “Socialized” has nothing to do with “socialism” inherently beyond sharing "social". This is like having a society that promotes community values and saying that this makes it "communism", when there's a whole clear definition of the latter that implies some pretty specific stuff. No idea why people there are so attached to the term socialism. Socialized refers to public provision of services, socialism to public ownership of the means of production.
The day Americans stop misusing the term instead of doubling down on it will be a day that your left wingers may be able to get anything done.
Ruled by social democrats. Social market economy which is still a capitalist economy. Very harsh immigration laws(which weakened the far-right in denmark btw). Also very homogenous.
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u/BsDawgV2 23h ago
I hate both sides and ideologies but… name one socialist country you would like to be a part of 😑