Flopper
Diamond Member
China under Mao is an example socialism taken to the extreme. Capitalism has been good for China, but that doesn't mean China should allow the big corporations to control government as they do in the US. Just as too much Vitamin A can result in toxicity in the human body, an overdose of capitalism can be fatal.Well, I wouldn't call China, probably the most socialist nation on the list, a low population, low consumer-driven nation, with non-diverse local populations. Scandinavia with a population of over 50 million certainly doesn't meet your criteria either.
Well, first of all, I dealt with China earlier, the "average joe" in China doesn't have free government health care and cradle to grave entitlements, they have perhaps a bowl of rice, and make slave wages. This is after 70 years of Maoist Socialist policy. The recent economic success of China, is largely due to heavily capitalistic policies, forbidden under Mao.
There is no such country as Scandinavia, that is a region in Northern Europe, comprised of mostly Germanic people who live in isolated communities and very low consumerism. It is several countries, all with variations of Marxist and Capitalist systems, and as I said, this is where Socialism tends to work, in small groups who are not diverse.
The only thing close to a semi-successful large scale Marxist system you will find in history, was the former Soviet Union. It failed! The average person in the former Soviet Union is on par with our homeless. They have little opportunity, because they don't have the freedom that we enjoy in America.
BTW, Scandinavia is the region that includes Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark, the far northern European countries in the list of the most socialist nations.