Assuming that the left gets its shit together before Homo sapiens goes extinct.
My vote goes to either the USA or France. Especially because the Paris Commune already happened. “Smeagol did it once...he can do it again!” Paris seems to have been packed with rioters 24/7 for several years. Not so different maybe from the American Midwest. The ruling class is investing heavily in police in both countries. It’s afraid!
I know this seems partly delusional of me and that there is far more hope in the Global South unifying and then strangling the imperial core from the outside. But still, gun to your head, pick an imperial core country and explain how and why it will fall first. Marx, after all, predicted that socialism would come first to those places that had progressed along capitalist development the most. (Yes, you are invited to explain how wrong I am about this.) The USA falling to socialism would probably cause the rest of the planet to fall the same way.
edit: my choices seem embarrassing now, thank you for enlightening me comrades.
Portugal I think, if you consider them to be part of the imperial core. They have shown a willingness to try new ideas and actual follow good harm reduction strategies in many places. Has a strong socialist party in minority government with the support of many smaller left parties..
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Yes I did see there ween't a great socialist party, classic slide into liberalism due to electoralism, similar to Labour in the UK, still better than most of the imperial core though unfortunately, I'd love to have openly communist parties getting actual percentages of the vote here.
Can I ask how you feel about living in Portugal? It seems like Europe minus Europe to me—all of the good parts about Europe and none of the bad. I know that's an exaggeration and that there must be problems but overall it (along with Ireland, Italy, and even France) would probably be among my top choices if I could actually live in Europe. I haven't actually been to Ireland or France, but I spent a couple of weeks in Italy a long time ago and thought that it was fucking awesome, Rome especially. Sorry to all the Italian haters here!
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I guess I just pictured Europe as being super racist, super reactionary, super transphobic, and super pro-Israel. Although I know very little about Portugal, it seemed to have all the benefits of living in Europe (beautiful country and architecture, social democracy, pleasant weather) without the drawbacks I just mentioned. Americans in my experience are really good at pretending to care about an issue like racism while Europeans seem much more mask-off. But I really have no idea what I'm talking about and I'm generalizing about hundreds of millions of people.
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