then you should understand that the biggest dangers to a society are not those that are symptoms of it's contradictions but its catalysts

Literal leader of the GOP

my bad thought it was about Trump even then i still don’t find it important to differentiate between democrats and GOP in most meaningful discussions like this one , it wasnt GOP that toppled Libya after all

Unsure but I don't think the question is too valuable. Whatever nation the most dangerous party is in will be the one carrying out the parties desires so we should look at the issue by nation not party

Also the GOP/Dem difference is nearly immaterial for international policy as @krishna_bound said the same people pay them both, so if GOP is mentioned, the Dems should be too. GOP does wreak havoc with their domestic policies though

I'd say the GOP is definitely worse on climate change, even if ithat difference is the biggest in rhetoric, dems aren't great either tho

I agree the question isn't that important tho, but it's not as ridiculous as people are making it out to be imo

Chomsky's on auto-pilot. The man's at the age where old folks just spew bullshit because they got nothing better to do

the most dangerous organization in all of modern history is the los angeles lakers, mashallah they missed the playoffs

Nobody wants to watch these Lakers in the playoffs anyway.

Been on auto-pilot the last 20 years

i meant billionaires and politicians

yessir

gramsci and other marxist theories on culture have expanded on this much better than the older stuff

the base does not directly uphold the superstructure but rather it is intertwined like a ouroboros

yea but there's a distinction between the two for a reason

Obviously, but political systems are meant to manage modes of production. They must uphold each other but the mode of production provides the foundational basis for society

the base does not directly uphold the superstructure but rather it is intertwined like a ouroboros

Gramsci has made great theoretical contributions, but they did not go against earlier theories. That's the view Marx and Engels themselves outlined, it was never said that the superstructure is some epiphenominal product of the base with no function of its own. Gramsci just elaborated on it and went more in depth. It's one of the most common b******izations of Marxist theory along with that historical materialism is some type of "stages theory"

I am ready for this collectivist authoritarianism you speak of

A socialist body with a strong central body

You'll be left with what Shanghai is now

Better than here

Under what measure?

Life expectancy, education, productivity to earning ratios, access to medical care, access to infrastructure, violent crime rates, etc

Idk where you mean by here, but I'll take lesser statistics if I can be assured the state won't imprison or starve me

The US has an incarceration rate 4 times higher than China. Also China’s been making so much more progress in solving existent food insecurity than the US

wfp.org/countries/china

npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-the-u-s-by-the-numbers

Once again there is absolutely no consideration amongst western “leftists” like @Yuzzy as to what conditions lead to this illusory “freedom” in the US and exactly what consequences the third world has had to experience in order for the US to secure this fake form of freedom.

It’s just liberalism with a social program veneer

You know I don't consider China socialist but they've made more progress on food insecurity and living conditions in general than pretty much any other country in the past 40 years and they have an incarceration rate several times lower than the US and only slightly higher than Canada, so these aren't exactly great points to criticize them on lol