For once, skourby is right, Titoism was great. Belarus (a socialist country) is great, I can attest to that. And I think it's fair to call the Nordic countries socialist.

You all seem to be being a little pessimistic. It's easy to look at the world and say how terrible it is, but in reality (per 100 people), Extreme poverty is at lowest level ever, fewer and fewer people are dying of disease, wars are rapidly decreasing/ becoming the far less destructive civil wars and the gap between rich and poor, although slightly increased by recent financial problems, is extremely low compared to the last 200 years. We are living in the greatest time the human race has ever experienced, there is no need to worry (apart from dealing with global warming, but I'm sure we are quite capable).