Are open ideologies more effective than closed ideologies for national progress in globalization?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are open ideologies more effective than closed ideologies for national progress in globalization?". Your opponent's style: Karl Kautsky

Explain your position on revolution

You're assuming revolution is inherently progressive. Most revolutions entrench new hierarchies faster than they dismantle old ones. Why do you think violent upheaval produces better outcomes than institutional reform that actually sticks?

Because an oppressive state cannot be changed from within

That's historically false. Civil rights, labor movements, decolonization—systemic change happened through pressure, not overthrow. If oppressive states can't reform internally, why do they ever concede anything? What forces them to yield?

Decolonization literally happened through civil wars

Some decolonization wars happened, but India, Ghana, and most African nations negotiated independence without sustained civil war. You're cherry-picking cases. Which matters more: the method or the actual freedom gained?

Or labor movements. In the Keiserreich you couldn´t achieve labour rights. It required overthrow and then labor rights were achieved

Weimar's labor rights collapsed the instant revolution stopped protecting them—Hitler dismantled everything by 1933. Revolutionary gains without institutional stability just create power vacuums. How did overthrowing the Kaiser actually secure anything permanently?

It secured democracy for all of Europe

Democracy spread across Europe despite Weimar's failure, not because of it. France, Britain, Scandinavia reformed without revolution. Why credit revolution for outcomes that happened everywhere else through evolution?

No. Britain´s democracy was achieved after Cromwell overthrew the king

Cromwell installed military dictatorship, not democracy—Parliament restored the monarchy immediately after. Real British democracy came 150 years later through electoral reform, not revolution. Why does your pattern keep requiring you to rewrite history?