Eh, you could quantify how socialist or capitalist or communist an economy is, and maybe the socialism index you would end up with would be a useful tool for analysis, maybe not. But in the end, the map is not the territory, and socialism is the real movement and not some ideal. You can only quantify things related to it but not socialism itself.
In my opinion, a country that has capitalism under a communist party for a hundred years and then achieves communism is "more socialist" than a country that has a hundred years of centrally planned economy and then collapses.
Eh, you could quantify how socialist or capitalist or communist an economy is, and maybe the socialism index you would end up with would be a useful tool for analysis, maybe not. But in the end, the map is not the territory, and socialism is the real movement and not some ideal. You can only quantify things related to it but not socialism itself.
In my opinion, a country that has capitalism under a communist party for a hundred years and then achieves communism is "more socialist" than a country that has a hundred years of centrally planned economy and then collapses.