@Radical_EgoCom @Cowbee @salty_chief (3) Their citizens pay very little for housing, healthcare, food, transportation, and education, all without the colonization and terrorism that these Scandinavian states do.

When the proletariat is the ruling class of the state, the state will work within the proletariat's self interest, and crush bourgeois oppression.

Bourgeois democracies like these Scandinavian states only work in the interest of the bourgeoisie, and placate the proletariat.

@Radical_EgoCom @Cowbee @salty_chief (2) countries that these states, which you almost call utopian, have been destabilizing, are immigrating to these states en masse.

"[Scandinavian states] have much higher standards of living, better quality universal healthcare, and more economic, political, and social freedoms than Marxist-Leninist states have ever had."

What a ridiculous statement. China and the USSR went from backwater peasant countries to world superpowers in less than a century.

@Radical_EgoCom @Cowbee @salty_chief

Unfortunately, you don't understand what you're talking about. These Social Democracies (really capitalistic states with strong worker protections) still benefit from imperialism on the Global South.

The contradictions inherent to capitalism still exist within these states as well. There are proletarians and there are bourgeoisie. The cost of living within these states is rapidly increasing, and reactionary sentiment is booming because people from the (1)