1) The quote doesn't say anything about it being a socialist country.
2) You didn't provide a link or further context.
He got that quote from wikipedia. Here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
Here is another quote from the same article that explains their economic system is something other than socialist. This part was conveniently ignored.
Economic system
The Nordic model is underpinned by a mixed-market capitalist economic system that features high degrees of private ownership,[SUP][29][/SUP] with the exception of Norway which includes a large number of state-owned enterprises and state ownership in publicly listed firms.[SUP][30][/SUP]
The Nordic model is described as a system of competitive capitalism combined with a large percentage of the population employed by the public sector (roughly 30% of the work force).[SUP][3][/SUP] In 2013, The Economist described its countries as "stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies" while also looking for ways to temper capitalism's harsher effects and declared that the Nordic countries "are probably the best-governed in the world".[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][31][/SUP] Some economists have referred to the Nordic economic model as a form of "cuddly capitalism", with low levels of inequality, generous welfare states and reduced concentration of top incomes, contrasting it with the more "cut-throat capitalism" of the United States which has high levels of inequality and a larger concentration of top incomes.
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