I am personally for radical direct democracy, nothing less, nothing more, because I view the political as trumping the economic, feel free to purge me once the revolution is there but I am interested if there are other “alternative” takes

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    not absolutely nor solely, I think other things come with it as well, being the reason why countries shift while others don’t under similar economic circumstances (Us vs europe now, europe vs france in the 80s, asian continued integration of SOEs, long sold by the europeans...)

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        being formerly revolutionary or an ally to the empire, or an hegemon, or a banana republic, is deeply political, and dictated in large part by international relation (france seat in the un security council, colonies being integrated into circles of influences, independance of saudi arabia and not other oil producing countries...)