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The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉
@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world · Feb 26
@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk Folks from the Scandinavian/Nordic countries often resent being labelled "socialist" as they're strong market economies. However, in many Anglophone nations including the USA and UK, the policies advocated for by "democratic socialists" are indistinguishable from the so-called "Nordic model" in practice.
Hence folks from Northern Europe also being confused as to why the likes of Bernie Sanders (USA) and Jeremy Corbyn (UK), were dismissed as dangerous radicals in their own nations! 🤷🏻♂️
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Ulrik Nyman ⬡
@UlrikNyman@mastodon.social · Feb 26
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And one of the major parties in the Nordic countries is called Social Democrats and they have been instrumental in instituting these policies since WWII.
Personally I think unions are even more important. In Denmark there is no minimum wage, but unions have real power that negotiates actual wages in different fields. The parliament cannot interfere with the negotiations.
This was fought with blood in 1901. The USA unions need to arm and kill to win rights.