From Sweden to Socialism

I have recently posed a question to which I have no answer, but which seems to me to go to the heart of the outlook for democratic socialism, at least in the advanced capitalist countries. The question is: how far beyond the borders of what I call “real but slightly imaginary Sweden” would we have to go before a visitor to that land knew that he or she
was in a socialist, not a capitalist, country? Let me suggest some of the more obvious answers—and the problems they raise...