Hi, I’m looking for a country whose people or government mainly support my values. I’m looking for a country that:
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supports wildlife protection
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supports eco-friendly things and solar/wind energy
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supports freedom of expression and does NOT criminalize queer people, be it trans, gay, bi, pan, intersex, asexual, etc.
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peaceful, low crime
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community-oriented
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equal and just
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very friendly towards animals, filled with animal sanctuaries and no-kill shelters
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free education and/or healthcare (preferably education and healthcare are free/government-funded)
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high taxes are therefore fine to me
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compassion-oriented
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affordable food with low unhoused rates and high employment rates
In which way is Germany declining? Which country is better than or equal to Germany in regards to the criteria posted above, and improving?
Germany is currently trending towards the far-right due to the decay in imperialism, and is going through large expansions in millitary expenditure. Like all imperialist countries, the rise of the global south has damaged its economy, and as a capitalist country disparity is of course rising.
Again, being imperialist means it should be disqualified from “equal and just” countries, IMO.
Ah, I see. Sure, international policy and the strengthening of the military industrial complex are shit. That’s mainly an issue if you don’t live in Germany, though.
Depends on what they mean by “equal and just”. I doubt you’ll find any country where society is completely equal and just. Germany isn’t that bad in terms of gender equality, disability rights etc, but its imperialist past and support of war and famine (and leaders which shit on gender equality, disability rights etc) are obviously not equal and just in the sense of global justice.
Thank you for your clarification. Did you downvote my comment? If so, why?
https://www.dw.com/en/german-welfare-state-can-no-longer-be-financed-merz/a-73742270
Well, Merz is a rich right wing politician most Germans didn’t vote for who is fearmongering to pin it on the poors, disabled people and foreigners, instead of the rich ruling class he’s actually part of.
That guy voted against parts of legislature which made rape within a marriage illegal (especially an “oopsie don’t want to press charges” clause) in the 90s. Women are organising a strike against him and similar people on the 9th of March 2026. He made some remarks on the cityscape being ugly, insinuating he wants to eradicate foreigners and homeless people to make the cities look nicer. Just some of his “achievements” to undermine my opinion:
I’d never trust anything this snake spits out before verifying with at least ten different sources, even if he’s telling me water is wet.
This is not about the Right ruling Germany. It’s about the rich elites. And again, Merz is not representing a majority of the country.
Lol
Germany isn’t ruled by the majority, but by capitalists, same as the rest of the west. Merz directly stating that they are cutting welfare and implementing austerity is because imperialism is decaying, and the capitalists can’t give out some of their spoils as bribes any longer. The solution is socialism, not trying to keep imperialism going strong.
It isn’t just that Germany has a strengthened millitary industrial complex, it’s that Germany is an active and willing participant in imperialism today. The west in general super-exploits the global south for super-profits, relying on financial domination of the global south and processes of unequal exchange. Germany in particular is especially predatory towards lesser developed European countries like Greece, and due to having a huge amount of influence over European finance and banking is one of the major beneficiaries of European imperialism towards African and other global south countries.
The reason I downvoted is because it seems that your comments are caping for this ongoing process, seeing it as a relic of the past and not a driving factor of Germany’s economy today. Anyone that tries to minimize imperialism is caping for a brutal system of exploitation, intentionally or not.
Thank you for your explanation. I’m not trying to minimise imperialism, I’m just not of the opinion that the bad things we see here are plain imperialism. Maybe cultural imperialism, exploitation or supporting bad and inhumane global policies, but I really can’t wrap my head around why I should call it imperialism when it isn’t.
I’m not talking about the secondary aspects of imperialism such as cultural imperialism, but the active role of financial domination of the global south to extract super-profits, a theory of imperialism as old as John A. Hobson (though refined by Lenin and economists beyind Lenin today).
What is it that you believe imperialism to be that doesn’t include the active expropriation of wealth from the global south through domination?
Mostly classical imperialism was taking the sovereignty of governance away from inhabitants of the country, i.e. taking over the legislative, executive and judicative powers.
You could argue that coercion is a kind of governance, but I’m not convinced.
If you argue that this is imperialism, is what China is doing with the west – asserting dominance through soft power projection and outbidding/underbidding local production efforts – imperialism aswell?
Is China imperialist?
You’re confusing the methods by which imperialism is maintained in older, formal measures with the actual practice of imperialism. Not only do NATO countries exert hard and soft power to keep the global south in the underdevelopment trap, they also benefit massively from this unequal relationship. A huge amount of Germany’s social safety nets are funded this way, in fact, effectively subsidizing lifestyles for the working class in order to suppress revolutionary fervor.
China is not imperialist, no. China is more effective at production than western countries that tended to resort largely to outsourcing production and relying on financial domination rather than raw production (though Germany is more industrialized than most western countries). China in fact is undermining imperialism by serving as an alternative to western imperialism, instead focusing on equal exchange and win-win development. It’s why countries that stagnated and underdeveloped under western imperialism actually are beginning to break free via trade with China and inclusion in BRI.
This is causing a crisis in the imperial core, and a sweeping wave of far-right reaction. Now that these countries can no longer coast on the spoils of their plunder as effectively, austerity measures are being brought home to cover cost, and millitarization is ramping up because Europe is finding itself demoted from vassal to periphery in the context of the larger US Empire (itself also dying due to the decay in imperialism).
You can’t say NATO is imperialist due to soft power, trade and structural dependence while claiming China isn’t imperialist because it doesn’t use classical political domination (like I argued for the EU). Either you include economic hierarchy and asymmetry or you don’t.
“Underdevelopment traps” are exactly what China is trying to create. They don’t eliminate dependencies, but reorganise it around Chinese capital, logistics, standards and demand. That’s still an unequal relationship, only replacing Western capital with Chinese capital.
I won’t discuss this definition of imperialism further as you clearly have an agenda which paints all “Western” countries as imperialists while only applying the definitions of imperialism to them, but not the rest of the world. Feel free to write about inequalities and exploitation with me, but please try to not be partisan.
I somewhat agreed to some points you made, e.g. the exploitation of the global south being a bad thing, and much of EUs wealth being based on economic domination, but your rhetoric shows that this is where our common ground starts and ends at the same time.
I’m not saying EU and NATO are saints, especially since the EU does atrocious things at our borders, and supports war and famine, but I won’t go down the rabbit hole further arguing selective definitions of imperialism. This is simply making ideological exceptions for the sake of the argument.