2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please, Democrats: Don’t Attack Bernie Sanders for Joining Your Party - Joan Walsh [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)There are several different forms of socialism, market driven and non-market driven.
Denmark and the rest of Europe to varying degrees use a Market-based system of socialism.
Non-market socialism entails democracy in the workplace and thus far has not been tried.
Your contrast between North and South Korea is not applicable in this case as North Korea is not a socialist country at all.
Rather it is a throwback to the middle age aristocratic model with lords and serf ruled over by an authoritarian leader.
What other countries have tried and failed at non-market based socialist economies?
We can eliminate the old Soviet block right away since they fall under state or managed capitalism.
I would also like to point out that the the current PM of Denmark, that you are hanging your hat on, is from the center right party in Denmark, so I take his opinion with a ton of salt.