Swedish Meatball Error

The Washington Times has a commentary online this morning written by Josiah R. Baker.  Baker teaches economics at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and his piece is titled Sweden’s turn from socialism.

Baker’s piece mostly is informative, noting changes in the political climate in Sweden, away from their socialist nanny state tendencies to a recognition that market based economics are in actuality what makes the world go round.  He terms this an “earthquake.”

I did note one rather glaring error, though, in Baker’s commentary, where he is making a comparison between the U.S., the former U.S.S.R. and the Swedish model of economics.

Unlike the U.S., where animosity between management and workers existed and the U.S.S.R., where workers confiscated the means of production from management, the Swedish “third way” demonstrated intricate cooperation between industrialists and organized labor like nowhere else.

The error, here, is Baker’s assertion that “...the U.S.S.R, where workers confiscated the means of production from management,...”

In the U.S.S.R., the workers did not confiscate the means of production from management, the commies confiscated the means of production and mercilessly drove the means into the ground.  The workers were the mere beneficiaries of socialist idealism whose policies were designed to confiscate any and all things associated with the individual and private ownership.

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