(I mean, at least in the Metropolitan area) Earlier I waited in line at a shop in Helsinki and behind me was a large group of schoolkids, all various people of colour and all speaking American English with each other. It’s a fairly common occurrence in Eastern Helsinki and makes you feel like you’re in the US or Canada

It’s interesting how quick things have developed just since I was a kid

I think it’s cool but it seems to cause Finnish boomers enormous existential anxiety of the Great Replacement variety

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    I don’t see this as an ultimate own tbh. Capitalists do not care about what ideology you believe in. They’ll sell you the rope you use to hang them with if you’re in the market for one. They have no morals, no beliefs, nothing except the pursuit of profits. It’s the communists who have to pay attention to reality and maneuver and compromise around the unfavorable conditions.

    That’s not me being delusional and thinking China is playing 5D chess and planning on pushing the communism button. While Xi is pushing for a return to ML and curbing displays of excess, it’s possible that everyone else in the party is simply a materialist, but not a communist, as with Putin.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      It’s not supposed to be an own either way, the comrade I was replying to just wanted vaguely Asian cyberpunk.

      The PRC is a (generally) state capitalist economy that’s broadly on a trajectory towards socialism. That means it has to accept a level of inequality and excess. That being said, you are right that constant vigilance is necessary against corruption and opportunism.

      In my opinion, the end result of socialism is not a society where luxury goods do not exist but rather one where luxury goods reasonably reflect their cost of production and the proletariat can easily afford them. A $2000 Gucci bag has maybe $200 of labor and materials in it, so strip away the marketing and shareholder parasites and even with a better paid workforce it’s still reasonably affordable.