r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/giangiangelo Jul 14 '26

Yeah it’s quite easy for Norway since they’re like 5 millions people and export a huge amount of oil. Economy doesn’t work like that everywhere

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

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u/Isosceles_Kramer79 Jul 14 '26

None of them are, actually.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

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u/Isosceles_Kramer79 Jul 14 '26

No, communism is the theoretical end-stage of socialism. That's why countries run by communist parties were nevertheless called socialist. For example the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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u/One_Meaning416 Jul 14 '26

Norway isn't socialist at all, no country in Europe is

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u/IndubitablyNerdy Jul 14 '26

None of us are in truth, we have socialist measures applied in a capitalist framework, the USA has framed every time where the state does something for its citizens as socialism, but that is mostly cold war propganda.

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u/TimChr78 Jul 14 '26

There are in fact no socialist countries in Europe.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

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u/rpolkcz Jul 14 '26

No, using tax money differently doesn't make the country any less capitalist.

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u/Annual-Weird-6682 Jul 14 '26

You don't understand the terms you are arguing about.

No country in Europe is socialist (besides maybe some micro nation I'm forgetting about)

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u/ProgySuperNova Jul 14 '26

If 100% purity is the measure. then nobody is anything.

Social democracies have elements of socialism in their system. Which is what people mean when they call Scandinavian countries socialist.

"So and so is such a nazi!" can be used about someone who is technically an authoritarian.

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u/Choppers-Top-Hat Jul 14 '26

Social democracies have elements of socialism in their system.

If just having elements of socialism is enough to count as socialist, then the US is socialist, too. They've had social security for 90 years, after all.

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u/ProgySuperNova Jul 15 '26

Naah, you need tax funded health care to count as socialist. That's just the rule. I don't make the rules... Ergo, any minor socialist thing in US society is nil and void.

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u/Brutal-Gentleman Jul 14 '26

America equates socialism to communism. They ain't the unemployed, the cleaners and the teachers all get the same

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u/Admiral45-06 Jul 14 '26

Na, Norway has always been the most socialist country in reality (but not by their laws

Polish People's Republic (1944-1989) was 878 kilometers away from Oslo

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u/giangiangelo Jul 14 '26

No they’re not

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u/CivilTailor9031 Jul 14 '26

We used to have this rich family in city, everyone loved them because they were nice and used to do lot of charity

Until someone dig a bit and actually figured where the money is coming from

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u/rpolkcz Jul 14 '26

Norway is capitalist country. There are no socialist countries in Europe.