Martin's problem is that he can not understand that socialism could not
have its generals, majors, captains or any other formal structure of
command as evidenced by the military.  One might just as well say that the
public service, with all its management hierarchy, is also socialist, or
that universities are socialist.  I think his feeling that Norway is a
socialist country is probably enough evidence that he's not exactly working
to any commonly-held definition of "socialist" - except one commonly held
by the ultra-right anti-government capitalists, who think that any for of
government at all is socialist.

I've absolutely no idea where he came up with those ideas, but he doesn't
seem to want to budge from them even though his line is unsupportable by
any definition of the word "socialist".

Alister