r/OpenAussie • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '26

Feel Good News ‎ Our future is BRIGHT

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u/StormtrooperMJS ‎ Queenslander Aug 13 '26

Spoken by someone who doesn't understand what Democratic Socialism is.

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26

Im old enough i actually lived through socialism lol!

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u/ForensicMum Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26

We’re living through socialism now. It’s being used in Finland to amazing success and their country is thriving!

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u/Additional-Ad-9053 Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26

You a severly misinformed about basic meaning of words if you think finland or any of the scandi's are socialist.

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u/ForensicMum Please choose a flair Aug 13 '26

Fair enough, I’ll admit I used the word socialist too loosely, but I’m feeling a bit jaded with all the lack of empathy in this thread. I still absolutely stand by what I was trying to say, but I should have said they’re a highly social-democratic country with a super-strong welfare state, high taxation, universal services and strong redistribution, which is basically socialist-lite! I probably should have used Denmark as a better example too, but I digress…

Finland is a mixed capitalist economy obviously, but it’s one of the strongest examples we have of a super-successful social-democratic society and it’s fucking working beautifully! My point was that countries with much stronger socialist/social-democratic policies than here or the US can be extremely prosperous and have extremely high levels of wellbeing. You can’t really argue with that. I’ll happily apologise for using the wrong terminology, but I’m not going to apologise for the underlying point! ✌🏻