From the artice: "Germany has the highest degree of worker control on the planet since the collapse of the Soviet Union." As if the Soviet union was a workers' paradise. There was lots of party control, but certainly not worker control.
Yes, comparing European 'socialism' to Soviet/Chinese style socialism ('communism') is so myopic that it has become a litmus test to detect writers who have at least a basic understanding of American/European system comparisons. Someone who sees 'socialism' and interprets it American-style, and thinks that Europe is that, starts out so wrong that anything based on those assumptions is tainted.
