text: You should let Germany, Sweden Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand, and Belgium know they are failed states (granted, failed states with better quality of life and standards of living than most of us enjoy), and demand everyone give up their property (which is communism by the way). All practice democratic socialism (or are social democracies to one extent or another). You are confusing state socialism (advocating state ownership of the means of production), communism (no private ownership), with modern democratic socialism (putting constraints on laissez faire capitalism -- which brings us such wonderful policies as child labor, unregulated import/export (think NAFTA), and increasingly longer work weeks for less pay, which are incidentally productivity and economic disasters). Sort of a simplification, but close enough, and it will have to do for now.