I have no problem with nationalising oil industry, or atleast put a tax on it.

So?

so that isn't socialism

Oil is owned by everyone, not who can buy the rights for it.

It is more socialism than what you traditionally think of as capitalistic economies

It's a *spectrum*

The Public sector only receives resources if it complies with the state (as shown with Bakeries)

And Venezuela is more Socialist than most other countries

Charging a private company for the oil they extract, is fine for some people

i mean if you want to make that argument then norway is more socialist than venezuela

It isn't

Norway doesn't have a totalitarian regime

why not

their public sector is way bigger

Because the government has limitations to what it can do

even private sector activity is often driven by state investment

they have strong unions

Norway has a pretty free capitalistic market. And people are happy there.

And you can reliably compete with the government

Because the government has limitations

what does the government having limitations have to do with anything

Switzerland too, Swiss are pretty happy too.

Venezuela just puppets the private sector by strangling resources

Norway is a well regulated capitalist economy and they are happy about it

well i would consider it capitalist yeah

but if we're plotting countries on a spectrum norway is closer to being socialist than venezuela

versterven is on two spectrums

By your standards the USSR was never socialist because private enterprise was allowed in certain industries

*sigh*

i cant do this

those aren't my standards

We're not just looking at the private versus public sector ratios @versterven

the private sector was far from dominant in the ussr

You are misrepresenting our case

?

Ughhhh

It's one part of the equation, there are a lot of other factors to consider

You keep looking at this through a one dimensional lense

That's it.

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Marx promised the collapse of capitalism in the most advanced capitalistic society back then (UK), did not happen, aeyh?

It is not binary