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I would call Nordic countries socialist, with capitalist elements. With Sweden maybe leaning towards the capitalist side, more than the rest. But I'd point to their multi-cultural policy as a problem in that regard, creating too much inequality between groups. to truly be capable of adopting effective socialist policy. They've cut down on a lot of stuff in recent times. Their integration policies have been pretty crappy, atleast recently. Easier to keep the ship afloat, when the pirates all know each others scams and quirks.
To uphold a proper welfare state takes careful balancing between the two sides. Wealth must be amassed, sometimes by cutting down on some of the socialist elements, so that the "good times" can be had at a later date. It comes quite naturally to a people who have been used to amassing "winter reservations" during the summer, for the long, dark winter.
However, I'd say that a progression towards a more complete socialist state is fully possible, through further automation. I'd say the risk of a collapse before that happens, is pretty significant though, causing a "relapse" to capitalism and crude global competition. Right now I'm particularly worried about the low births, resulting an aging, mostly retired population which may over-load the economy.
Never really agreed with or fully understood the argument that the nordic countries are socialist -- its more cuddly capitalism (Norway being an exception but even they have a strong private market that they know they will need to continue to foster to compete in a post petroleum economy) The nords have a comparable and in some cases a exceeded portion of millionaires per capita and similar Pre tax poverty rates of the United States - with gini's in the 25% range-- it just differs in amount of welfare spending, and benefits from small homogeneous population that share way, way, way more commonalities than the United States, and to a lesser separation, Canada, England, etc. I mean, i dont think there is a correlation between Sweden becoming less homogeneous and their ecnomic inequality becoming the fastest rising in the developed world. The US could have similar distribution of public funds on a state level -- but we have seen that even in the leftist states, they have a less desire for consumption taxation that makes nordic countries among the most expensive to live / depleting PPP despite having high GDP/ Captia.