I didn't know I lived in a socialist country.. :o
Actually, I tough I lived in a constitutional monarchy where the center-left opposition tells me that the neo-liberals have destroyed everything because the center-right have privatizied some drug stores and some hospitals and we can now buy medicine in the general dealers. And we have recently got a nationalist party in the parliament.
Yeah, surely there was a lot of socialism-ness when the social democratic party controlled all energy providers, hospitals, schools, daycares, apartments, local courts, the lutheran state church, TV and Radio stations through the state and the labour unions, the residents' association, the sport clubs, the major food and gas chain and the major undertaker enterprise trough DWC:s. There are also quite a few examples of tyranny from back then too, since the leaders in top of the pyramid could use their powers to make life a hell for troublesome people. Though they never ended private property, so it's still not socialism.
Also, Sweden lacks checks and balances and a clear seperation of powers, which is a clear legacy from social democracy. There is no term limit for how long a prime minister can sit, and no such thing as a upper house/senate or need of a supermajority to change the basic law. You just have to make the decision twice, making the basic laws quite useless. This is because socialism and adjacent ideologies are based on legal positivism and recognizes no such thing as a natural law, thurs checks and balances becomes useless obstacles to the will of the people. That's why socialism sooner or later ends up in some kind of tyranny.
