Socialism

Socialism MEASURING SOCIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Which of the two countries is more socialist, Canada or the United States of America' It must first be state that neither Canada nor the USA is considered a socialist state. For the purpose of this project, a socialist state would be one such as Greece was until the early 1990’s; a country where the state owns all forms of companies and/or businesses and offers practically every type of social service known to modern governments. Since none of the two North American countries that will be featured in this paper can accurately compare to the above description, the paper will simply attempt to determine which of the two has a higher degree of socialism when matched against each other following a certain set of criteria. Before going any further, let’s view the conceptual definitions to the key elements of this paper. Socialism, as referred to throughout the text, can be defined as follows: any of various social or political theories or movements in which the common welfare is to be achieved through the establishment of a socialist economic system. A socialist economic system canada, services, income, canadian, states, social, united, dollars, percent, government, according, care, must, health, america, state, security, public, per, spent, socialist, level, education, political, however, population, party, members, year, system, american, years, corporations, variable, therefore