[rhodorhoades]

Swedens and Norways top political parties have ‘social’ in their name. Also, I would say socialism is more of a sliding scale based on ‘how big’ the role of government is. It depends on what level of the ‘social programs’ fall under the perview of the government vs. private industry.

I would say Sweden and Denmark are more ‘socialist leaning’ compared to other democratic republics of the world.

[ptr]

Government spending per GDP in Sweden is 50.6%, Germany is 51.5%, France 59.9%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263220/public-spending-r...

[dijit]

Government Spending does not need to be spent on social causes (USA for example).

Government spending is spending, it can be investments, defence, police, social programs, education, pensions, etc;etc;etc;

You can infer precisely nothing from this data.