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What kind of government do you guys think is most progressive? Most useful? Most efficient? Most practical?
All those wonderful things.
Aww... I actually wanted to try to have a calm discussion about Trans stuff, because I feel it's really important. But that's coo'.
It's maybe not possible to implement on a state or continental scale, but the system I find most beautiful and am kind of in love with are those pre-governmental forms of egalitarianism you can find in tribal cultures. They rely on small populations to function, since everyone kind of has to know everyone else personally... but there are no leadership positions, everyone contributes whatever they can to the group, and everyone gets whatever they need and can't produce on their own from their neighbors. Currency doesn't have to exist because commodities aren't owned; the only debt that exists is which person needs what thing... and when goods are scarce, individuals determine how to divy things up or address the shortage. It's got a collectivist vibe, without all the Fierce Nationalism or Despotism, and it warms my heart. Downsides are that you're limited to what your neighbors and you can produce, and the skills you have; if you need treatment for an illness, better hope one of them knows enough medicine to get you a working cure, etc.
I suspect it was one of Karl Marx's inspirations. I had a long argument in class with an Anthropology Professor, where I hypothesized that Communism may have been an attempt to create something like that Egalitarianism on a national scale, but failed due to the need to create a system to control the distribution of goods (you know, it wasn't goods and services passing from individual to individual anymore, so it removed the built-in equality and responsibilities individuals felt for their neighbors or society's well-being and growth... the part that makes it work on a tribal level was made impersonal by a system that turned compassion into social obligation.
As I recall, it sparked a derail about how "Communism never works." and the heavy implication that Uncle Sam was crying at me for suggesting it. I couldn't reign him back in or shift focus to my actual point. It was sad.