Rouge Rover
Senior Member
- Jan 27, 2016
- 935
- 120
- 45
Well, yes.No they're not. Pure socialism is, but there is plenty of private ownership in democratic socialist countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany.Does it really matter? Both are against private ownership.Any ideas on how long people are going to ignore the difference between democratic socialism and pure socialism? Six months? Two years? Ten years?.
.
When did the definition change? The way I learned it was Socialism as top down state control of the means of production and Democratic Socialism as replacing bureaucracy with communes, collectives, that sort of thing. Neither allowed private ownership. Has the definition changed that much?
The countries I listed are examples.
.
The countries you listed have mixed economies and parliamentary systems. I know France has an unusual political history so I'll give you that one only because I know nothing about how they do things. The rest of them are not democratic socialist.