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Well, if we judged it by metrics like life expectancy, literacy rates, housing rates, popular support for government, etc then the socialist states would all suddenly be on top! Oh... wait a minute... ๐ค
Arguably, the mixed economy Nordic states are doing pretty darn well.
Put another way, most communist/socialists wouldn't be too unhappy if we could copy/paste the living standards of Nordic countries around the world. Problem is you can't do that since they still rely on exploitation (still ehign capitalist and all). The end result isn't that far off (in some ways), but it doesn't scale.