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.

  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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    hace 3 años

    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.)

    You're not wrong, but Marx was. Socialism has actually taken root in the periphery, among regional powers, and foremost where there are are conflicts and revolutions related to imperialism more than proletarian alienation. Not the core, where the bourgeoisie were effective in (often violently) quelling socialist movements, generally those making attempts through electoralism (turns out the ruling class will shoot you if you get too uppity).

    There are many arguments about why he was wrong about this and I think they're particular to the conditions of the time and those states. In particular, I believe these failures were based on the efficacy of fascism in slaughtering the left and the imperialism of the United States that minimized the size of the marginalized classes within the imperial core, propagandized them into believing they were not marginalized, and effectively propagandized the rest of the population into outright hating and blaming the marginalized for everyone's problems. In addition, these countries transitioned to service economies where alienation from the product of one's labor takes on somewhat different properties.