You’re insisting on a separation that doesn’t exist. You want to analyze the “structure” of government, representative vs. autocratic, in a vacuum, divorced from its outcomes and the material conditions it creates.
But a structure that consistently produces “assorted ills”, genocide, exploitation, and vast inequality, is not a neutral, well-functioning machine. It is a failed structure. You dismiss these outcomes as “mean,” but they are the direct result of the system you defend.
Your “representative” model is not some pure form. It is a structure that has always depended on external exploitation, slavery, colonialism, and imperial extraction, to function for its citizens. The “freedom” of the West was built on the enforced servitude of the Global South.
Meanwhile, you label systems you don’t understand as “autocratic” while ignoring their material successes: ending famine, providing housing, and lifting billions from poverty, outcomes your “representative” system has failed to deliver for its own poor.
The structure is not separate from its results. The results are the proof of the structure’s failure. You’re defending a blueprint for a house that consistently collapses, while attacking other blueprints because you don’t like the architect’s title. Judge the house by who it shelters, not by the label on the door.
You’re insisting on a separation that doesn’t exist. You want to analyze the “structure” of government, representative vs. autocratic, in a vacuum, divorced from its outcomes and the material conditions it creates.
But a structure that consistently produces “assorted ills”, genocide, exploitation, and vast inequality, is not a neutral, well-functioning machine. It is a failed structure. You dismiss these outcomes as “mean,” but they are the direct result of the system you defend.
Your “representative” model is not some pure form. It is a structure that has always depended on external exploitation, slavery, colonialism, and imperial extraction, to function for its citizens. The “freedom” of the West was built on the enforced servitude of the Global South.
Meanwhile, you label systems you don’t understand as “autocratic” while ignoring their material successes: ending famine, providing housing, and lifting billions from poverty, outcomes your “representative” system has failed to deliver for its own poor.
The structure is not separate from its results. The results are the proof of the structure’s failure. You’re defending a blueprint for a house that consistently collapses, while attacking other blueprints because you don’t like the architect’s title. Judge the house by who it shelters, not by the label on the door.