Where do you think social progress comes from? It isn't purely economic, of course, but what's critical is that social progress is hampered by imperialism and neocolonialism. When the primary obstacle to global progress, including socially, are these economic systems of brutal plunder, considering countries like the social democracies in the imperial core based *purely* on their internal policy and not at all on their foreign policy is a grave error. Again, it's like you're pointing to a group of landlords and calling them more progressive than their tenants. It's a form of Herrenvolk progressivism, progressivism at the expense of the global south and working against global progress.