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The Bismarck passage read aloud rejects speeches and majority decisions as decisive and says great questions are decided by iron and blood.
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Bismarck
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism, but by its power. Pressure must concentrate its strength and hold..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "The position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism, but by its power. Pressure must concentrate its strength and hold..."
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Jiang argues that a war-making nation-state must take care of workers and soldiers because the whole people contribute to military production and survival.
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Jiang says Bismarck understood that a nation-state must make warriors and keep workers healthy because workers produce the machines of war.
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Bismarck is presented as both anti-liberal man of iron and pragmatic welfare-state builder seeking a content unified Germany.
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"The position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism, but by its power. Pressure must concentrate its strength and hold..."
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"All right. So the idea here is that, listen, we're a German nation. Okay. And as a nation state, as a people, we must..."
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"The real grievance of the war is the fact that we are a nation. We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence...."
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"So Bismarck will turn Germany into the most powerful nation in the world by recognizing that it's not just soldiers who contribute to the..."
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"Chancellor because he gave a speech in which he said that the position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism..."
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"A man of violence, a man of sternness. But he was an extremely pragmatic man. And his ambition was to have a unified Germany..."
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"...Germany was divided into many hundreds of different kingdoms. It is Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck of Prussia, who will unify the German people into..."
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"...But in the late 19th century, about 1870, Germany unified under Bismarck, and now they have their own ambitions. And now Britain came into..."
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"...need to stay united as a people. This is Otto von Bismarck, the most famous Prussian in world history. He is the founder of..."
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"...was Catholic. So a third of all the people is Catholic. Bismarck, his biggest failure, his biggest mistake was his attempt to suppress the..."
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"...priests all went to prison. And this was a disaster for Bismarck and ultimately he had to compromise and relent. So the Catholics are..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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