While some who express a negative view of socialism link it with countries like Venezuela, some of those with a positive view point to different countries — such as Denmark or Finland — as models. And while those with a positive view of socialism say it could bring increased equality, a common theme among critics of capitalism is that it has led to unequal distribution of wealth in this country.
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It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. In a article for Rethinking Economics, former head of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway Bjorn Skogstad Aamo ascribes the development of this cautionary attitude to the to banking crisis and the subsequent public ownership of banks.
As a result of such caution, Norway cruised through the Great Recession mostly unscathed. More significantly, there were no domestic bailouts. Gross domestic product recovered within two years. Unemployment barely budged. Had the boards of Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers been chaired by government representatives, they, along with the U. Many right-wing politicians and thinkers continue to cite Venezuela an example of a failed socialist economy, while refusing to call Norway a successful one.
Meanwhile, state ownership is actually more extensive in Norway than in Venezuela. But students there and across Scandinavia graduate without the horrifying debt burdens of their U. Those who sustain injuries in traffic accidents never have to beg bystanders not to call for an ambulance, for fear of drowning in medical debt. Their homes were not repossessed en masse by banks during the Great Recession. Extensive public ownership shields Norwegians from the harshest aspects of unfettered capitalism.
Whatever Norway can afford, the equally wealthy United States could afford as well—if it stopped allowing a minute fraction of the population to hoard almost all of the wealth.
Many American conservatives regard the inherent evilness of socialism as an article of faith. Yet the success of Norway, along with its Scandinavian neighbors, affirms that public ownership can be a road to prosperity, rather than serfdom.
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Election Augusta Saraiva , Robbie Gramer. November 12, , AM. According to Gallup , Democrats now view socialism in a more positive light than capitalism. In National Review, Kevin Williamson offers a rather more measured and illuminating conservative perspective. The real debate, as Williamson goes on to suggest, concerns the structure, balance, and integration of the elements that make up our political economy. The polarized ideological charge around these hazily conceived rival ideals leaves both left and right with a dangerous blind spot.
As Williamson argues, the left needs to better appreciate the role of capitalism in producing abundance. In the real world, you finance soft-socialist guarantees with a level of tax revenue and borrowing you can only sustain through capitalist innovation, competition, efficiency, trade, and growth. It is a fantasy vision incapable of answering deep-seated anxieties about dislocation and loss that inevitably shape democratic politics.
I wholly agree. Instability and uncertainty are nerve-racking. The market competition that drives innovation and efficiency is a wrecking ball that leaves some among us sifting through the rubble, all the time.
Capitalism creates wealth by setting up a contest for profits that necessarily creates a steady stream of losers. The fact that capitalism also creates a steady stream of opportunities does not, by itself, make the risk of losing tolerable. I disagree with Elizabeth Warren on a slew of policy particulars — on the minimum wage, single-payer health care, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, for example — but I think her recent affirmation of the progressive power of capitalist dynamism gets the bigger picture basically right:.
I am a capitalist. I believe in markets. I love what markets can do, I love what functioning economies can do.
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