From a media blockade to “nationalizing” government software, Denmark has become a laboratory for resisting U.S. Big Tech. But is the price of sovereignty too high?
Of course, our socialist ruling party in Norway recently had several former ministers join various lobbies lately, so there’s that too. Not illegal, though.
Welcome to Lemmy, where socialist nations means nations that follow Marxist-Leninism and not a form of modern utopian socialism better known as social democracy that took bits and pieces of Marxist-Leninism under a capitalist umbrella.
The US is capitalistic.
Most of Europe is some variation of social democratic, with us up in the Nordics more socialist than further down on the continent.
Yes, capitalistic values increasingly and intrusively are corroding functioning societies towards a more US style dysfunction, but we are still far from as lost a case, so there is still hope.
And lobbyism has been regularly discussed in the last decade and will hopefully at least get stronger regulation sooner rather than later for several of us, so there is hope for that part at least.
I see you subscribe to the “socialism is when the government does stuff” school of thought, I disagree with that and think Denmark is social democratic and therefore capitalist.
Like… Denmark? Where it’s legal?
Of course, our socialist ruling party in Norway recently had several former ministers join various lobbies lately, so there’s that too. Not illegal, though.
Welcome to Lemmy, where socialist nations means nations that follow Marxist-Leninism and not a form of modern utopian socialism better known as social democracy that took bits and pieces of Marxist-Leninism under a capitalist umbrella.
So not like Denmark, but like China or Vietnam.
Denmark is capitalist, so yeah of course I’d be legal.
And fascist.
The US is capitalistic. Most of Europe is some variation of social democratic, with us up in the Nordics more socialist than further down on the continent.
Yes, capitalistic values increasingly and intrusively are corroding functioning societies towards a more US style dysfunction, but we are still far from as lost a case, so there is still hope.
And lobbyism has been regularly discussed in the last decade and will hopefully at least get stronger regulation sooner rather than later for several of us, so there is hope for that part at least.
I see you subscribe to the “socialism is when the government does stuff” school of thought, I disagree with that and think Denmark is social democratic and therefore capitalist.
Social Democracy is a method of operating the government.
Capitalism is a way of operating the economy.
Much of Europe’s governments are classified as a Social Democracy and they also use the capitalist economic system.