>>2465098Gosh, many responses here are really bad.
So:
There are 2 approaches to truth, the philosophical and practical one.
Philosophy is in crisis and might only get you confused, probably (I don't discourage reading tho!).
The practical one is facts-based. Facts help to establish the definitive knowledge about reality (practically, philosophy aside).
The problem with facts is that even if you know them all, how do you interpret them as good or bad?
I believe that there is only one adequate criteria: do people lives get better? If you follow this criteria, you could judge the facts in a positive way.
There is a catch though: what is "getting better" mean?
For example, the most obvious criteria is 1. People's material conditions might improve, but what if: 2. They do not control means of production, so they are not in charge of their destiny and as a result at a constant risk of their material gains being reversed by fascist expropriation or 3. The society is repressive with many human rights being suppressed?
I think that people lives get factually/objectively better if all 3 criteria (1. material conditions, 2. political power/true democracy and 3. human rights) are considered and a system is objectively good if it goes generally in fulfilling them. Alternative system proposals should also be evaluated based on these criteria.
Now, as a brief example, how can we evaluate USA, domestically and internationally?
Internationally, USA is very well known for destroying any countries which it does not fully control for profiteering by its corporations and maintaining hegemony - how can this make people lives better? The only half-hearted argument could be that "once we achieve global USA super-empire, there won't be anymore wars, defense spending, etc. This is definitely unachievable anyway with BRICS countries rising up, so American globalist imperial project is untenable and generally destructive for humanity. But even if we would entertain the idea of American Empire succeeding, how would it look like?
This brings us to American domestic policies, which are objectively anti-human. Practically, American oligarchical ideal is a very docile population which constantly wage-slaves - typical capitalist attitude. This is a simple conclusion from MAGA capitalist policies. USA has no ideal for human development asid
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