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> Norway a socialist society.

This is literally false. Socialism entails worker ownership of the means of production. Norway is a social democracy, not a Socialist society. It's worth remembering that in Marx's time, Socialism and Communism were synonymous.



It is socialism to the extent that the means of production is in fact largely publicly owned- or rather than owned, the fruits thereof is publicly redistributed via taxation.

This definition would fit nearly all so call capitalist economies too, which shows wr have VERY FEW purely capitalistic as well as purely socialist economies, although thr latter do exist more frequently in history and a few crazy places.




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