Having just spent 8 months in Sweden, I can assure you that their Socialism is purely &#x27;children&#x27;s creche&#x27; socialism, and not &#x27;free bread&#x27; socialism.<p>There are some goods that have positive externalities and high fixed costs - the government should subsidise these. Education, defence, roads.<p>There are some goods that do not have positive externalities - the government should let the free market provide these. Bread, personal firearms, petrol.<p>Sweden subsidises the former, not the latter. Venezuela has subsidised the latter, often at the expense of the former.