What that was so easy

Who cares if Japans population shrinks to like 5 people. Is that actually a bad thing. Hell if it means there's no more anime I would say its unambiguously good!!!

population shrinkage is a sign of economic depression

what is happening itt

Idk they seem to be doing fine

the empire is doing fine politically, sure. the economy has been in a recession since 1991 tho and it'll likely never escape it so long as the country stays on its current trajectory.

they're doing fine in the same sense the US is doing fine
take from that what you will

Democracy high key overrated

dude what are you even saying

this is why you should read things like Capital before worrying about s*** like Nietzsche

plutocracy

I was being facetious but have you ever looked at the composition of the Israeli knesset

If there's anyone who needs to read more Marx in here it's definetely you

Meso-american palace regime

well thats not really a democracy, its more like a social club for white european aristocrats who made it their life goal to kill arabs.

The Israeli people's unifying goal is to kill arabs though

right, the general critique applies to the society more broadly. governments are class dictatorships, the Israeli legislature represents the interests of settler colonialism. its not a flaw in the concept of "democracy", though obviously democracy is inferior to communism.

I do think it's a critique on democracy, at the end of the day the Knesset isn't only a chamber of commerce. Every dead Palestinian is a manifestation of the Israeli peoples democratic will. I wonder what you mean by your last statement because my interpretation of communism is that its democracy in its purest form. Free from settler colonialism or the "social club".

the primitive accumulation of palestinian land and the class character of the Israeli settler comes before any pretense of "democracy". my point is that the knesset very clearly does not function as a "democracy" since the system itself is premised on the exclusion of anyone who isn't a white settler -- by any bourgeois standard that is anti-democratic. in the era of imperialism, only socialism is capable of producing a true democracy.

what I mean by that last statement is that democracy itself is an intermediary between the will of the people and the potential of the system. during the Cultural Revolution it became obvious to the proletariat that the previous forms of socialist democracy were ill-equipped to the continued task of building socialism to a higher level and that new forms were necessary. in a theoretical communist society their wouldn't be a necessity for "democracy" at all since the system would be self-sustaining through its internal mechanisms. this is partially what is meant by "the withering away of the state".

Is herrenvolk democracy not still a democracy?

To whatever the extent the state withers away there would still be a state imo, which would necessarily be democratic.