@TruthSandwich @Alon @futurebird And yet what he doesn't actually push anything even close to as radical as Sweden or Norway.
@vidar @TruthSandwich@qoto.org @futurebird What are the features of Sweden and Norway that you're thinking of right now? Because (ignoring the existence of Anders Tegnell for a moment) I think of universal health care, free education, sectoral collective bargaining, high union density, and high taxes on the middle class. Main difference I see from Sanders is that he disagrees with the socdem-neoliberal compromises that cut taxes on capital income while leaving high labor incomes heavily taxed.
@Alon @TruthSandwich @futurebird Has he argued for state ownership of a substantial proportion of the economy?
E.g. in Norway, the state owns about 1/3 of the market cap of the Oslo Stock Exchange, and that ignores the bulk of state owned companies which are not listed.
Even the Norwegian *conservative* party leader stated some years back that for the state to own 34% of the largest banking group was a strategic long-term goal.
@vidar @TruthSandwich@qoto.org @futurebird That's specific to Norway and the oil revenues. It's not core to the model; Singapore has a state investment arm and is in no way socialist (look at its inequality, or at how it handles losses in this investment arm), while Sweden has no sovereign wealth fund like that.
@Alon @TruthSandwich @futurebird It's similar in Sweden and Denmark, neither of whom have the same revenues.
The ownership I'm talking about *excludes* the sovereign wealth fund as that only invests outside of Norway.