“It’s not socialism that was the problem, see, it was just inept or corrupt leaders. Look at Sweden for a better example of the glories of socialism.”
It’s partially true in the sense that nordic people tend to behave much more ethically than southern people. I would not be surprised if that isn’t genetic to a large extent.
Socialism would stand a better chance in countries where the population is intrinsically more moral. With the huge muslim migration, watch for socialism in Sweden to eventually have the same level of success as in Venezuela.
“To each according to their needs and from each according to their abilities” requires an incredible amount of selflessness, honesty, conscientiousness - angel like features that few people possess. In other words, socialism would work if people were not like they are.
The left simply refuses to accept the reality of human nature and it constantly tries to remake man to its ideal image - even if it has to kill him in the process.
And who knows, with advances in genetic engineering, one day they may actually succeed in manufacturing their ideal human beings, as predicted by Huxley’s “Brave New World”.
We are certainly headed in that direction.
More like 1984
People in southern countries don’t have to work as hard for shelter, food, heat, clothes. Also, they don’t have to use brain as much to survive. My opinion
I think Sweden owes its work ethic in large measure to the religion that they’ve mostly abandoned over the past few decades. Consider East Germany, as another example.
Inevitably, more and more of those that have a habit of hard work will come to realize what suckers they have been, and then the system will fall apart, just as socialist systems do. Either that, or they will devolve into a Communist system, where The People (i.e. almost everyone) become slaves to The State (i.e. the Party elite).