The infrastructure socialists include an impressive number of innovative technology companies, some of which have themselves been the subject of forced access proposals.
China, the world's largest e-commerce market, never really had this issue because of the socialist and central government mindset of prioritizing infrastructure investments.
Independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, dreamed of a socialist society and created a vast public infrastructure, much of which became a burden on the state.
It was "a radical program of municipal reforms designed to reshape the social and economic infrastructures of the Austrian capital along socialist lines", writes Eve Blau in The Architecture of Red Vienna.
Overall, health indicators in CAPS countries compare positively with the averages for lower middle-income countries (LMICs) (Table 1), arguably as a result of the extensive health and education infrastructure and adequate human resources established during the socialist period.
Where the socialism part come in to play is where socialism is already an active precept in America's infrastructure: organizations like the public library and fire department are socialist institutions, as well as programs like Social Security and Medicare.
More infrastructure spending is touted as one answer, but with the Socialists pledging not to cut social spending, it will mean either more borrowing or finding offsetting spending cuts.
Its main targets read like a socialist-utopia checklist: modern, industrialised farms, clean water and soil, sophisticated rural infrastructure, and farmers prosperous enough that they won't abandon their fields.
The state's long history of reforms nurtured a prosperous middle class and made it a model of clean government, solid infrastructure, trade unionism and high value-added industry managed by socialists and the LaFollette Progressives.
