both red-stater American, and social democratic Scandinavian cultures are individualists.
I don't think this is true about Scandinavia. Not sure about the Finns, but both Norwegian and Swedish culture have been described as enforcing a LOT of conformism.
individualist socialism
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
I am fairly astonished - this is a fairly obvious definition of modern social democracy / social liberalism?
Old, collectivist socialism was about common social goals of basically the pyramid-building type. Enter liberal individualism. Everybody lives for their own goals. At some point people realize that the current distribution of wealth does not lead to the maximization of individual goal achievement. Some people want to be artists, but it is hard to make a living that way unless you are really good. Some people want to p...
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