cuba doesn't stand a chance, it's been strangled for decades. makes one wonder what it is that the US fears so much to keep the stranglehold on. something to hide?

the problem with your theory of market regulation limited to taxation is, as I pointed out, it doesn't stand a chance against global corporations that can corrupt even the most powerful nations. that kind of corporate power, that is the obvious end goal of capitalism, is toxic and destructive.

now, let's take, for the sake of the argument, your claim that the socialist practices in nordic countries are better capitalism. why, then, do most capitalists reject proposals to adopt them in other capitalist countries by arguing that they would amount to socialism? (or, invisible hand forbid, communism!)

now, we seem to agree that mythic communism has never been tried, but can you give any examples of this mythic pure-breed regulated capitalism, that I've never seen tried anywhere either? I mean, the cases we know of capitalism are either poorly regulated, that sucks, or well-regulated towards socialist practices, that sucks a little less and not for very long, because the unregulated havens enable corporations to grow like cancers than proceed to destroy anything that stands in the way of their growth or that would threaten the ideology of deregulated capitalism. so they sabotage those who explicitly reject capitalism first, and twist the arms of those who attempt to regulate them. it can't end well