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We have plenty of stagnation today. The mass poverty spearheaded by neoliberalism has kept wages low and prevented adoption of robotics and automation. Why have a burger flipping robot when federal minimum wage is still $7.25? Socialism is the way forward. Capitalism was crumbling in the 1930s. What did we adopt to help deal with it? Social Security. Socialism is in the damn name. Unions are very socialist in desire. Plus lots of of other non-capitalist measures were enacted between the 1930s and 1960s that helped make the 50s and 60s so great.
Why was Germany so powerful in World War 2? They had a fierce fighting force and a roaring industry. The core of their engine wasn't capitalism.
Stop swallowing the neoliberal propaganda. USSR was communist which is different from socialism. Nordic Socialism is working out well for Finland and Norway. It's made Sweden rich enough to afford their ridiculous stance on immigration; though that is collapsing due to a lack of nationalism.
We don't have to go whole hog on it. Small measures, like the difference between 1940s USA compared to 1920s USA would make a big difference.
All the examples you gave are of places with ethically and ethnically homogeneous societies that are relatively small. These things would never work in America, nor should they.
Beyond that, trying to split hairs between communism and socialism is like trying to say a single bacteria and a colony of that same bacteria are fundamentally different. They aren’t, it’s a difference in degree not in kind.
The US is rich enough that it pioneered Social Security. If we were to restructure all of the dysgentic welfare programs we have into a Social Security-like UBI that does not discourage work as welfare programs do, we would be much better off. And if some people misspend their UBI and buy crack and die early, all the better.
Even Milton Friedman suggested we could afford a Negative Income Tax in the 1970s, which is functionally very similar to UBI.