Western Europe isnt socialistic. It is a mixed market economy. The true nature of socialmism was a movement which could only fail, which indeed did fail miserably in those numerous countries where it attained power in the twentieth century,by bringing to the masses only unprecedented despotism, starvation, and grinding impoverishment.
In saying that, providing health care, public transport etc is not provided for the beneficiary of the people, but to protect the establishment from a backlash. We could debate all day long about what the state should provide and what not, but what ever the state does provide through the coercive mechanism of taxation is rarely done for the greater good.