I don't think Europe will ever pose a military threat to the USA, and I really hope such a conflict will never come to be.
Economically, Europe has the potential to be stronger than the USA, assuming the "Eurocrats" down in Brussels get's their acts together. This will probably still take decades.
The Social Democratic party has dominated Swedish politics since around the 1920's, so if they're failing, it sure is a slow process.
Socialism is *much* more than just Marxism and Leninism. It's probably the broadest political ideology there is, ranging anywhere from political centrist/left to almost straight out anarchists, anywhere from democratic to authoritarian. Reformists and revolutionaries.
[ 11-20-2004, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: Stratos ]
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