Is Greenland socialist

Answer 1

It depends what definition of "socialist" you are using. If you are an American, then you may tend to use the word socialist to describe the prevailing system in many Western European countries, that of a fundamentally capitalist liberal democracy with varying elements of what can properly be termed "social democracy", which may include: a comprehensive welfare state, a single-payer free healthcare system, state pensions, state intervention in the economy (such as public ownership of basic utilities, or an enforced minimum wage). According to this definition, Greenland (being currently governed by the Inuit Ataqatigiit party) is "socialist".

However, this definition of "socialist" is not often used outside the USA, and especially not in countries where there is generally less hostility to socialist ideas than in the USA. In many other countries, "socialist" would be used to denote a society which is inherently and fundamentally anti-capitalist, that is to say, the means of production are owned in common by the people, and there is no capitalist class of landowners or businessmen. By this definition, Greenland is definitely not socialist, as it retains many fundamental features of capitalism (private ownership of land, businesses and the means of production, etc).