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Why is Finland capitalist? Scandinavian countries in general seem to do so much for their people. Why did Neoliberalism not impact their welfare states? And what's stopping the Scandinavian socialists from taking hold of the state machinery (via DemSoc means or otherwise) and using it to push socialism? They seem far closer to the ideal than the rest (whether that's countries in the Global South who, after a socialist revolution, would have to build the state). I don't know. I'm just confused.
Socialism is not a static state of existence, it is the real movement against capitalism. The Nordic countries had perhaps the most effective non-Leninist socialist movement out of all the imperial nations. When globalization undercut the power of organized labor in the 70s/80s, the socialist movement was defeated. However, the institutions and culture built by the movement were fairly resilient and remain to this day, even as they are constantly, incrementally worn down by the forces of capital.