Top 10 Socialist Countries
There are hardly any countries with pure forms of any kind of government. The U.S. is thought to be a capitalist country but has socialist style programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Many socialist countries have aspects of capitalism built in also. The line between capitalist and socialist countries is not a fine line but a large blurry divide. This divide often causes confusion and allows politicians to make claims about socialism by referring to countries that are rooted in capitalism.
There are countries that reference socialism directly in their respective constitutions. Here they are
- China
- Cuba
- Laos
- Vietnam
- Bangladesh
- Guyana
- India
- North Korea
- Portugal
- Sri Lanka
As you may guess, these countries don't have the immigration problems that most other countries of the world are struggling with. From the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) website Portugal is the only one of these countries with data reported. In 2016, Portugal received 46,921 immigrants while it's only neighbor Spain received 354,461 immigrants.
Anyone looking to emigrate from their current country into an exotic foreign country with the security of socialist protection, you now have a list of countries from which to choose. If you're in the United States and desire to emigrate to this situation, please let me know how I can help you leave.
Great post! Just let me add a slightly customized version of your last sentence:
"If you're in Germany and desire to emigrate to this situation, please let me know how I can help you leave."
I could tell this to SO MANY people around me here in Good-Old-Germany!
#WWG1WGA
Maybe we can both get rid of them.
Geographically speaking, given the statistics written above, Spain seems to act as a territorial insulator for Portugal, acquiring 7X the quantity of immigrants as Portugal did. Does Argentina do the same for Chile, Sweden for Norway?
Geography does explain part of the preference of Spain over Portugal and some could be explained by the size of each country. Argentina doesn't report immigration statistics to the OECD so it's not easy to see. Sweden has about 2.5X the number of immigrants than Norway, but the Nordic countries have tight, nationalistic immigration laws. If you're not going to contribute to the Nordic countries, don't bother applying. Also remember this is only legal immigration statistics.
Add Europe: Sweden, Germany, France etc.
Their crime is to pretend to be based on Constitutional, free western values. In fact, most parliaments and heads of governments in these countries are fascist/socialist/communist treasonous vermin.
Merkel, for example, used to be head of the Christian Democratic Union, traditionally THE center-right political party in Germany. However, all of her policies are socialist/communist/fascist, while demonizing the actual center-right. Merkel used to be a lead socialist functionary in East Germany. How she became the Fuehrer? Betrail and election fraud. There are no fair elections in France, for example either, where Maccoroni Pizza Boy Macron, now below 18% approval rate, stole the election from Marie LePen, who was leading the elections and was poised to win. She scored 64% in the polls among the young people but was defeated by election fraud of momentous scales. The same applies to the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Spain - the EU dictatorship.
The list above is also suspect, as, in my humble view, NK should be on top of the commie dictatorship.
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Portugal is socialist?
Their Constitution in 1976 opened the path to move to socialism. How far they have gotten I cannot say.