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Socialist, yes. Most of Europe is pretty heavily socialist.
As far as communism goes though, not any at national scale. Where you tend to find actual communism tends to be in small, very tightly knit communities, but they don't usually call the structure of how their communities function "communism" and at least here in the US, would be "annoyed" were you foolish enough to describe how they live as communism.
you're confusing socialism for social democracy. social democracy comes at the expense of large scale exploitation of the third world through neo-colonial imperialism, so it is still capitalism
Pretty sure explotation isnt a requirement for social democracy, though I do not deny that explotation is currently happening, really need that cobalt.
it is a requirement if you want to be a very rich social democracy