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    Are there any good arguments against the Nordic Model, Keynesianism, and other currents of social democracy?
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    Most of the arguments deployed against capitalism in general also work for social democracy and Keynesianism, because both only ameliorate rather than solve the issues with capitalism. Even that's debatable mind you; the "full employment" they supposedly created began to erode gradually as soon as the war was over in Britain, and the boom-bust cycle was far from resolved contrary to popular opinion - hence why the United States suffered recessions in 1949, 1953-4, 1958, 1960-1, 1969-70 and 1973-75, with the last one being particularly sharp.
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    Are there any good arguments against the Nordic Model, Keynesianism, and other currents of social democracy?
    That it was just only cold war solution that is being dismantled when the Soviet Union has gone. As Žižek wrote, humanizing of capitalism is an utopia. It tends to return to its naked state.
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    Are there any good arguments against the Nordic Model, Keynesianism, and other currents of social democracy?
    It doesn't address the root problems of capitalism. Currently in the Nordic countries, the wealth gap is growing. People are pretty disappointed about this, but the newly minted conservative governments aren't interested in doing anything to stop it. So long as you have a system that seeks maximum profit over all else, you're going to have that dynamic. Also, whereas there's not much of a poor class in those countries as in, say, the United States, there is still a relative poor, exploited and marginalized class of people (that, for the most part, are made up of exploited immigrant labor from the EU and North Africa, and refugees will get shit on by the local population, as well, partially out of fear of "jobs").

    Norway's Rødt Party has an impressive platform for what it is and they outline a lot of the major issues facing Norway, and the other Nordic countries, because of the remaining vestiges of capitalism in the countries.
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