Who could ever have predicted that socialism would destroy the economy?
Every time some flavour of socialism succeds: Hmm... Yea those Scandinavians are a ticking bomb, any day now they are going to fail. (40 years later)... Any day now...
Most Scandinavians countries are kingdoms ( I think only Finland is actually a republic) and when people talk about socialism they usually have Marxism-Leninism in mind. The Nordic model [1] relies on the free market to have a welfare state, which contrast with Marx's ideas of state and social classes.
Er, what? Socialism is much more than just Marxism even in the broad sense, and Leninist vanguardism ("Marxism-Leninism") is not particularly significant in modern socialism. About the only thing from even Marxism in the broad sense that is fairly broadly common throughout all of what people talk about under the umbrella "socialism" is the broad outline of the critique of concerns/problems with capitalism, but the actual alternatives vary considerably.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/002287-sweden-a-role-mod...