Reddit reply in r/PhilosophyMemes: the line between political philosophy and — November 17, 2025 | Ali Shukri Amin

Socialism is not antithetical to liberal democracy. Communist autocratic states were also Hegelian, they just interpreted Hegel according to Marx. Ultimately, the capitalist Hegelians won out over the communist Hegelians. Different flavor of the same thing.

No traditional society before industrialization threatened the existence of the entire human race, so, yes having more disease but still having a human race is obviously far superior to having less than a century of prosperity and then destroying the race (with rising involuntarily celibacy & destroyed mental health in the meanwhile).

I do not propose liberal democracy as a solution it's just that you are so entrenched in capitalist realism & cultural hegemony you literally cannot conceive of life without the entire race plummeting off of a cliff. Your entire conceptualization of politics is just right Hegelian or left Hegelian.

We live in one of the most tightly controlled societies in human history and you still argue it's "free." Never before in human history has a surveillance state been able to monitor & control literally everything we do like today. You cannot find a single state in the past that controlled & repressed speech like modern states do - enabled by the fruits of liberal democracy.

There is no Chinese dynasty or Islamic sultanate or pre-modern European feudal state that had this much control & repressed people to this extent in all of history. It was simply impossible. No tyrant had an NSA.

The inability of liberal democrats to justify what their system is doing is how autocrats have risen up in basically every part of the world to try to repeal democratic processes as much as possible. I don't agree with that, but clearly large swathes of people across the globe are tired of the fanaticism of this regime.