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Adam Tooze started his Chartbook CN channel on WeChat. It's so over. Chinese youth will be Toozian.
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@_night_brain__
Han won't allow you to walk barefoot or sit on cold surfaces cuz the cold will enter the bones etc
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Adam Tooze will visit East China Normal University and give a lecture titled "How was the American hegemony established and how will it dismantle?" before going to Fudan for another lecture.
@adam_tooze
's John Dewey moment across a century. Progressive ideas from Columbia to 🇨🇳
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The life in a small Russian town on Moscow Peking line. If there's no vodka the villagers would wander to another town until they had vodka to drink. Shows the mental and physical state of the provincials Russians in late USSR - was mass hallucination the only way to Communism?
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The Soviets warned the USA a strong China would disrupt the entire bipolar world order and challenge America's leading position - expansionism, worldwide influence and strategic independence.
Moscow warned America would be weakened and cry for its euphoria. Prescience.
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Capitalism, Confucian Spirits and the End of Asia: parental expectations of the kids are much less related to parents' socioeconomic status among East Asians. For babies and toddlers, even the poorest parents expect their kids to be the best among all, no matter how unlikely.
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Both Deng and Shevardnadze visited hi-tech factories, but the latter learned nothing! Meanwhile, Deng learned both hard and soft skills (management) mattered and immediately dispatched officials to Japan for investment & organised associations for quality and management a la 🇯🇵.
Was the Soviet visit to Tokyo a lost opportunity for Japanese investment in the USSR? The USSR did not have a large pool of young workers as China did, nor did the USSR show efforts of market reforms by then, nor was the USSR a friend of the US (whereas China was, temporarily)!
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Between 1979-1994, China was a weak fiscal confederation. In 95, central govt’s revenue only made up 10% of the total govt revenue, and the local governments had revenues unreported to Beijing: 86% of the total govt revenue! Done by de facto local taxes uncontrolled by Beijing.
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Oh , the wonderful war of invasion where the US encouraged hard-line Islamism, Türkestanis fought for the Communist родину, China hosted mujahedeens for training, and Russians as the only traitors converted to Islam to defect from the Soviet Motherland and Russia.
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Remittance flowing out of Poland increased by 20 fold over 18 years and quadrupled since 2015. Now it is the 15th largest remittance source country! The immigrants are truly making the Polish Wirtschaftswunder.
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The male Gen Z in China with a regular spouse are reporting much less sex than their previous generations: even with a partner 15% had no sex in the past year. And for the younger men, sex becomes rarer for better educated, contrary to the previous generations.
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Deng was very, very smart. A diplomatic mastermind that played Moscow against Washington, balancing both powers perfectly with the clairvoyance of both sides' intentions and tactics. He improved relations w/ Moscow while opposing the US support for TW AND getting US technology.
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Guys we should actually form a reading group and read them together
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@TheOmniZaddy
@anya_ywz
Do you really believe that more luxury sugar could lower prices for English workers? Telephone? Laundry machines? Touchscreen laptops? 😡😡
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In 1998, pornography and was fought with iron fist, while nudes of non-Han women were available. The extreme grip on Han women's bodies was contrasted with lax birth control of other women - the ethnic liberty symbolising freedom for Han girls. Now the table's turned. What irony.
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Name me one more organisation that has harmed the Third World development more than the xenophobic motley crew of European Junkers, Latifundistas and Greens represented in Brussels
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Guys the final thing got past and I think I can secure the diploma and another year's roaming and roving about in the Netherlands.
If you know any potential place to rent / job in the Netherlands, please DM me :) I'd like to stay
the international celebration of
@Yaaqov_
for his success in his masters degree. post your Ws below
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People will say how pre-Collapse the USSR was such a great place, stable, safe, no drop in life span, but the regression to manual labour and decrease of health indices as well as unemployment problems had already begun in Central Asia.
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Ideal TFR in China is way lower than Japan and Korea. A fifth of female Chinese born between 1995 - 2003 don't want any kids, while for their male counterparts it's a tenth. And the willingness for no kids exploded amongst China's Gen Z.
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It seems the reaction to Han manufacturing is killing global trade, because the Han again emerged as the top trader in other parts of Asia. Han goods are so cheap - invading there countries - that even traditionally friendly or neutral ones (BRICS, ASEAN) are getting upset.
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> Accepting internship
> Needs proof of no crime
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> Requires all my addresses of residence since I was 10
> Moved 36178 times uh
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This year Harvard's history department did not recruit anyone specialized in modern China. The competition for a PhD in Chinese history is particularly fierce with very talented friends of mine getting zero offer. The departments now favour the framing of "fossil capitalism".
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Migrant workers' money sent back to Tajikistan makes up over half of the country's GDP, and aa third goes for Kyrgyzstan! Well, perhaps Moscow's assistance to Central Asia never ended with the Collapse. The Collapse, however, indeed facilitated more Central Asians into Moscow.
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The Soviet youths became materialistic hedonistic hipsters even earlier than their European counterparts, and any repression only made them more resilient and any public criticism only made them more public! American culture has a magic that transforms the world in its own image.
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Real Communism had magical army which did not cost money just as magical Communist factory machines wouldn't depreciate. So no one knew the military budget and therefore it was practically abolished. Real Communism realized War is Peace in economic terms.
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@lionel_trolling
Thinking the self group is weak, meek and thus evil and needs self revolution was clear in pre WW2 Jewish thoughts. Clear in Ben Gurion. The Jewish Century detailed how the Jewish thinkers in Israel and the USSR hated Jewishness and how it is linked to both Zionism and Sovietism.
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Reading Sartre as bad as watching pornography for young people. It is an assault on Marxism which promotes estrangement from the CCP. Just as watching pornography, reading Sartre produces confusion in the young psychology.
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If you suddenly won 1 million USD, what would you do? Try having 60% GDP growth.
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What is it that students in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and Havana were/are disproportionately enchanted by the richness of the world of the classics of history, poetry, literature, and political philosophy and global cultures, while I've rarely seen it among my Western peers?
For the inaugural post in my column at the Liberties, I wrote about my hometown of Tehran & its unrepeatable, glorious intellectual & cultural life - or at least that of the bubble I came of age in, where I first became a flaneur, my enlightened Tehran
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I thought human capital was a neoliberal invention!! [A thread on early Soviet nationality policies]
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@DrRadchenko
Gosh, just googled Olivier salad and found out it's almost the same as the salad my Shanghai family can't miss on Chinese New Year's Eve. Apparently the white Russian emigres brought it there. And it is one of my favourite Chinese New Year dishes!
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@arash_tehran
Wasn't almost all decolonization a chain of interlocking violences? Think of Algerian war.
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Leninist brain will do mental gymnastics to prove the Bolsheviks were originally popular and democratic. If you are popular and democratic, why do you keep delaying the Assembly, and arrest the elected delegates who protested the summoning of a democratic congress?
The Communists have the largest lie that the October Revolution was deeply rooted in the masses and delivered what they wanted. Actually most workers weren't involved but the militants; in Moscow workers dissented. Many wanted a democratic assembly while others just vibed along.
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3000 LAWS ON ORANGES
This is the top 100 label distribution of EU laws over its history. Just look at how many are related to agricultural products! Cereal, sugar, eggs, grape, citrus. A thousand pieces of laws and regulations about beef. It is a union of agricultural regulation.
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@adam_tooze
is giving a speech to China's Development Research Centre of the State Council. THE national advisory team to the Central Government of China. He's really making it.
Endlösung of Polycrisis.
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Written in 1991, the book talks about the nature and fundamental deficiencies of the Soviet production metrics: total production & higher total input = better -> waste, extensive growth, conservatism, sluggish R&D. I wanna know the ideological foundation justifying such a metric.
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Latest capitalist trick is prole solidarity. US decided that 🇲🇽 unfairly suppressing workers' wages, making Americans lose. Then US asked 🇲🇽 to allow free unionising & Mexicans can report the union's problems to 🇺🇸. US unions also helped Mexicans unionize!
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Can you imagine a Pax Mongolia that unified Moscow, Kiev, Beijing, Tashkent, and Tehran? Approved by the Pope.
Imperialism is good again!*
Pope Francis in front of a giant Genghis statue.
Francis explicitly praised the Mongol Empire.
*NOT European empires, oh no.
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Vatlin revealed that local NKVDs targeted people with biographical taints for recruitment. It provided a fast track to mobility for tainted people also enabled the control over them. Within NKVD, they acted as clans with robbery of arrestees, infighting and infinite alcoholism.
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I think the most stunning statement by the author of Collapse is, roughly paraphrased, "in 1991 a democratic state collapsed." It was not a dictatorship, but an emerging democracy w/ an emerging civil society that collapsed, and people cheered the collapse of a newborn democracy.
In the last three pages of the book, Gaddis quickly glosses over something that Zubok effectively spends 400 pages explaining: that democratic structures emerged in the USSR!!
Did Yeltsin magically become a democratically elected President of the Russian Federation?
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Great nation missed.
@DrRadchenko
writes that Stalin threatened the Chinese with Mongolian irredentism if they did not yield. Choibalsan in fact "quietly lobbying Stalin to allow him to extend Mongolia all the way to the Great Wall and the Pacific seaboard" after the WW2!
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New ideology: the neoliberal period saw great economic growth, ⬇️ global inequality, ⬇️ poverty and the 🌅 of (some) non-white nations as well as tech advance. If you think it's bad cuz the white middle class got worse off, it's cuz you believe white lives' welfare matter more.
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The Russian liberals in the Thaw believed the anti-colonial Western leftists were rooting for ruthless manipulators and diminished human freedom, which would lead to violence against the Jews. The radical movements would leave to totalitarianism killing Jews.
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Finally addressing the diversity of Islam within the Chinese state! During national identification, Islam was ethnicized and many of the Tibetan Muslims and other Southern Muslims became not Tibetans but part of the Sinic-Muslim ethnicity despite vast differences.
@SengeHSering
@gyani_jahil
*Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations & Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960*
@DavidGAtwill
@ucpress
open access!
A "history from below" that “challenges the master narratives of... Tibetan history & national identity”
@paldengyal
@LSEReviewBooks
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Is there any person in the world of internationalist universalism willing to spend over a quarter of annual budget and over a quarter of the strong men in their country for the cause of a modern polity of multiracialness and multicontinentalness?
Jacob reminded me of some wild facts about the 20th-century states, colonies, and wars.
During the war, Portugal had a population of 9m (wasn't rising due to rapid outmigration), and 1.2-1.5 males in the relevant age bracket.
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If people keep write dissertations that are like 80% discussion of theories and background information that you barely use, ChatGPT will abolish you very soon.
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Neoliberal Woke Salazar sent workers abroad & defined Portugal as MULTIRACIAL! To achieve this, he got rid of tariffs to the African farmers' exports while keeping protectionist tariffs of the third world in place in a common currency. IMAGINE THE EU BE THIS KIND TO AFRICA!
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Out of innocence I asked my maternal grandma how she celebrated New Year as a kid. She said she never had any New Year. She didn't know how to celebrate. She didn't either. Bonded to a landlord, her father and she only had a sheet to sleep on and in from the start of her memory.
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In Beijing, there were 600 tutoring schools per 10000 pupils in 2018. And the ideal TFR is negatively correlated with the density of tutoring colleges. Hegang, albeit relatively poor, proudly houses 300 tutoring schools/10k pupils and has a very low ideal TFR for its GDP level.
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The Cantonese made a business in faking the portrait of Washington and selling them abroad to the US in late Qing. The court in Philadelphia took legal actions against the forgeries!
Project idea - a history of the connected development of California and Guangdong, 1800 to the present
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1. Ben-Gurion knew very well the dilemma of Israel: democracy and territorial maximalism aren't compatible as long as a substantial number of Arabs still live in Palestine/Eretz Israel to maintain a Jewish state.
2. Who were the Arab members in Knesset from the start of Israel?
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Communist speech is coded and the use of a lesser severe synonym may indicate a U-turn in its policy.
Who among the Western reporters has the capability today? After the collapse the world lost many talented discourse analysts of the Communist speech and we're suffering from it!
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Labour Party will cite Adam Tooze to argue Britain under Tories is fucked
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It is how many LSE undergrad socio courses work and many students (my peers, native Eng speakers) couldn't even finish the weekly assigned texts. Ngl many pomo texts just don't make sense, but using online summaries flattens the thinking process of the provocative reasoning.
wonder how the higher learning commission feels about a not-insignificant amount of this course’s reading being short form articles, if not outright blog posts, on first things, , Josias, etc
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The proportion of respondent thinking immigration is a problem for the country in the EU. Well, Bulgaria ranks first at 74% and Romania 48%? How come the difference?
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Biden, the de facto king of the Christian world, Catholic, decides that one would rather have the wild Germanic and Slavic pagan nomads' grazing land totally turned barren and uninhabitable by nukes than see the Holy Land encroached on by a single bit - more ammo to Israel
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As
@devarbol
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The Soviets nationally liberated the Azeri by first stationing troops in northern Iran, then nationally liberated Iranians by withdrawing them, "to pull this weapon (excuse) out of the hands of the British and the Americans, and unleash the anticolonial struggle for liberation".
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Soviets discovered that No Fap November was the key to Bolshevik victory in October Revolution because the sexual secretion was on the revolution & socialism in 1 country. It was the real background of Dr Preobrzhensky's experiment to graft glands into a dog - to see Verjüngung.
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It's the first reproducible result in social sciences, tried and not failing! Military coup -> socialist land collectivisation -> grain confiscation -> peasants hide food -> total oppression and market and production collapse -> unnecessary total famine.
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The Soviets still changed raw materials for Western technology and their currency was overvalued in int'l trade. But this part is genuinely intriguing - the pathological deformation of Russia's economy took its form in the 50s and 60s already? Exciting.
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- infamous islamist channel in Turkey
- News: Azerbaijan banned marriage between relatives
- Top reactions: "Allah permitted it, how is it your business?"
"Continuous supporting Israel but revoked against Allah's permission... Not my brethren."
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The Communists have the largest lie that the October Revolution was deeply rooted in the masses and delivered what they wanted. Actually most workers weren't involved but the militants; in Moscow workers dissented. Many wanted a democratic assembly while others just vibed along.
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It is almost established that during economic expansion, workers have higher bargaining power, unions become richer, strikes are more frequent, and even Marxist revolutionaries cannot be blacklisted! I now proclaim Degrowth is Anti-communism and Anti-workers.
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Perestroika is to have aesthetic macho men sexually showing off their bulks and bulges in purple underwear in public before Marx, Engels and Lenin, while enabling oligarchs to steal stuff and jump on peaceful demonstrators in Tbilisi.
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Soviet cultural policy shows the schizophrenic nature of one-country socialism (in contrast to China’s). An enclosed territory necessitated a mark between self and other, while the international nature of class required that conventional territorial demarcation be neglected.
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Tony Judt's trope of illiteracy dismissed Salazar's efforts to combat illiteracy by building schools. Illiteracy kept dropping! Also from the 50s Salazar changed course to seek help from technocrats for FDI (contrary to Judt's claims) and even sought integration with Europe!
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The blue bar is ideal TFR in each country and the orange is the actual. China sees both the lowest willingness for kids and a rapid decline of the rate of realization of the number of kids wanted. No factor bodes well for China's demographic future. Link:
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There must be a reason why real existent socialists seem to have never been good at economy management? Why don't I see any leftist sociology article tackling that, except preaching "radical democracy" against technocracy in every corner of our life?
@pseudoerasmus
@thesvs1
@gabriel_mathy
@ULojkine
@Kumar_EconIneq
@jeaujanres
@avgevorkyan
I do think that there's something to this arg, but also that it overlooks how the Cuban state effectively nukes its own infrastructure in the 1960s through mismanagement. The Soviets didn't make Cuba destroy its coffee sector or mismanage its light industry sector into the ground
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Time to restitute Salazar from Tony Judt's defamation of the developmentalist efforts. One frowns when Maddison shows 🇹🇷 has never been richer than 🇵🇹. Also, budget surplus gave credit worthiness and infrastructure while Salazar was persuaded to trade and integrate with Europe.
This is totally mixing the causes and consequences.
Portugal was one of the poorest countries in Europe in the 1920s and had one of the largest growth rates in 1930-1970s, Salazar certainly didn't make people poor.
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Is this the ultimate (& very 🇷🇺) expression of love? One wishes the defeat for the liberation of its own country and people. Even the loyal dissent Tvardovsky ultimately felt excited and euphoric to see the Soviet setback in Prague - before all of his hope was dashed by tanks.
it feels weird. the country I grew up in and thought I loved in some way, I wish nothing but the worst defeat and humiliation for them, they need it
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Yes sorry ChatGPT has become my Russian teacher. I think it is one of the cheaper but interactive ways to learn a new language at an elementary level now. It also corrects your essay and explains it sentence by sentence and summaries the grammatical points you need to learn.
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Polish colonization of indigenous Belarusian and Ukrainian lands. Settler colonialism agitated the 🇧🇾 and 🇺🇦 peasants to read the situation in national terms, fostering strong 🇧🇾 and 🇺🇦 national identities. Polonization also meant fake bilingual schools and religious conversion.
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The map of Chinese National Humiliation shows the former border of China - what China is supposed to become. The expansion of law and morality.
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What's the conclusion? The young Chinese face huge competition at school and don't wish the next generation to suffer the same. Having kids means not only expenses but also pressure from patriarchal marriage to "complete all the tasks". Radical solution: no kids for any of us.
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This graph shows the socioeconomic factors' (income, property, education etc) impact the willingness to marry and have kids with the other person. 1) Chinese women focus a lot more on the material wealth than men. 2) High overlapping of the two preferences - unusual in the West.
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How the Han caught up with the Turks and restored the order of the universe.
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The fact that "hekim" doctor is from the same root as "hükümet" government shows the Arabs from early on had the same philosophy as Foucault did a millennium later: political and medical power emanate from the same regime of power and their way of doing shows one governmentality
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it just shows that Stalin didn't even believe in the planned economy either. It was only about owning the West. You know. Owning is important. Just import substitution. Autarky. Where's the claimed benefits by Marxism? Where's the lack of alienation and stuff?
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@lilbabygandhi
In general not wrong tho? Red scare really drove social welfare although the form it took in each country had their historical and political reasons (Esping Anderson)
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Imagine Biden withdraws to become Kamala’s VP
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best
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The origin of Soviet neoliberalism, we have found it. Paul Samuelson was read as early as in 1964 by Maths students. What else could go wrong? They went against the political economists ™️who were at that time at the top of academic power! Now the sociologists could only envy.
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WTF KMT visited Hitler? Why did KMT keep shipping ores to Nazi Germany? Why did KMT and Chinese urban intellectuals admire Hitler? WTF Chiang kept simping Hitler like a femboy? The West should now sanction KMT ROC, the third world can't understand its interests, Han are pure evil
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The only way Biden can secure the re-election and make America great again is to consolidate the American people around the Biden core, practice Three Supports, Three Loyalties, Four Modernisations, Five Good Five Evil and Eight Disciplines as shrined in Biden Thoughts
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