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What type of economy does Sweden have?
Sweden has a mixed economic system in which there is a variety of private freedom, combined with centralized economic planning and government regulation. Sweden is a member of the European Union (EU).
When was Sweden communist?
Communist Party of Sweden (1924)
| Communist Party of Sweden | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1924 |
| Dissolved | 1926 |
| Merged into | Social Democrats |
| Ideology | Communism |
What was the final and most immediate cause of the disintegration of the USSR?
The rise of nationalism and the desire for sovereignty within various republics including Russia and the Baltic Republic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Ukraine, Georgia and others proved to be the most immediate cause for disintegration of the USSR.
Are there any examples of socialism that have actually worked?
Rainer Zitelmann: In your book, you write that socialism has always failed. Looking back through human history, are there really no examples of socialist systems that have actually worked? Kristian Niemietz: No. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society.
Does socialism fail because of the economy?
Niemietz: Absolutely not. Socialists who criticize Stalinism and other forms of real-world, historical socialism always fail to analyze the economic reasons for the failure of these systems.
Socialism has become a young people’s movement. Socialism has become hip and trendy. Socialists have successfully managed to distance themselves from all real-world examples of failed socialist experiments. Whenever you confront socialists with any such example, they always offer the following response: “These examples don’t prove anything at all!
It reads like a blueprint for, to use the currently fashionable term, “democratic socialism.” Socialism is always democratic and emancipatory in its aspirations, but oppressive and authoritarian in its actual practice. Zitelmann: In your book you do not mention “democratic socialism.”