| There's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Marxism Which I feel is the "most complete take" >Karl Marx... only criticizing the freedom in the great inequality of wealth and power.[3] Confucianism is mostly CPC marketing; its gerontocratic heart really beats for Legalism, though some still hope for the "tail wagging the dog, peacefully", just like we'd want "civic individualism" (now represented by Mamdani?) to wag the genroto-corporatist dog in the US. Regarding the pensions, it's not like national-level legislators are getting censured for supporting their raise. I'm glad Taiwan's not tied to the DPP, because I'd rather support this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_People%27s_Party#Policy Looks like it's projected to replace DPP after the boomers die off (peacefully)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2024_T... Sorry, it's just immoral to me to sow discord against CPC in an US-based geronto-corporatist forum. If you want we can continue this on a PRC youth-forum (where I'd think it would be immoral to cast aspersions on US :) Regarding Taiwanese fix for liberalism, Audrey Tang (with Glen Weyl) is not wasting time: https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-taiwan-is-leading-the-w... >As Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson famously argued, free democratic societies exist in a “narrow corridor” between social collapse and authoritarianism. From both sides, information technologies seem to be narrowing the corridor, squeezing the possibility of a free society. She'll probably run under the TPP flag? https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/21/plurality.html |