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They are not socialist economies, they are welfare states. If you were able to read the Frankfurt Declaration you posted, or were able to understand it, you would understand it says socialist states don't have market economies and the states you list do.As if France and Scandinavia and Australia New Zealand are taking over their economies. They just have a living wage Health Care daycare paid parental leave cheap college. You are a brainwashed functional morons, perfect fools Of the greedy idiot rich. We are the richest country in the world and the only one without all that stuf and for that matter an ID card to end illegal immigration, great vacations and infrastructure. But we have the biggest yachts now- you people are idiots....This is just more of the same kind of bullshit Bernie Sanders is trying to peddle. Notice that none of the con men trying to sell the false idea of democratic socialism tell how they plan to bring all the goodies they promise. Socialists want to take over the market economy and those who support a welfare state do not. If you were able to muster a little healthy scepticism when ready drivel like the Frankfort Declaration you wouldn't post such nonsense.The Frankfurt Declaration took a stand against both capitalism and the Communism of Stalin:There is no modern sense of what socialism is. Your are just posting about your ignorance of what socialism is.I know you are a brainwashed functional Cold War dinosaur. It is a welfare state just like every modern country is and many who are not modern --it's intelligent and it is socialist in the modern sense-- everywhere but super dupe GOP America.There is no modern sense of socialism, you moron. Portugal is a welfare state.
Socialism aims to liberate the peoples from dependence on a minority which owns or controls the means of production. It aims to put economic power in the hands of the people as a whole, and to create a community in which free men work together as equals... Socialism has become a major force in world affairs. It has passed from propaganda into practice. In some countries the foundations of a Socialist society have already been laid. Here the evils of capitalism are disappearing... Since the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Communism has split the International Labour Movement and has set back the realisation of socialism in many countries for decades. Communism falsely claims a share in the Socialist tradition. In fact, it has distorted that tradition beyond recognition. It has built up a rigid theology which is incompatible with the critical spirit of Marxism... Wherever it has gained power it has destroyed freedom or the chance of gaining freedom...
— The Frankfurt Declaration, 1951
The three stages of the definition of socialism...
1 Marxist ideology proved wrong.
2. The USSR brand of socialism, which turned out to be a dictator scam, no democracy at all.
3 see above