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To all the morons who say “socialism never worked” or “socialism failed everywhere” I give you Eduard Bernstein.
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He very much represents the kind of socialism I am behind, and the socialist traditions of Northern Europe which has been very successful. Especially in the Nordics.
Invariably some lame MAGA will come and say “Nordics are capitalist societies, and not socialist,” to which I would answer: “No they are mixed economies.”
And really that is the whole idea that Eduard Bernstein pioneered. It is to see socialism much more as a direction than an endpoint. If you fret about whether a society should have the label “capitalist” or “socialist” then you are really missing the point.
What Bernstein was pushing was for gradual reforms within liberal democracy. And he was not talking about abolishing the capitalist class or anything like that.
What ultimately matters is creating a good society for people. Not what label you put on that society.