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The state transforms bottom-up life into taxable forms: permanent cities, factory wages, state-controlled property, and centralized resources.
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The state transforms bottom-up life into taxable forms: permanent cities, factory wages, state-controlled property, and centralized resources.
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Peter the Great westernized Russia to prove it was European, to create imperial unity, to pursue military supremacy, and to centralize authority over church and nobility.
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Qin power rests on legalism, collective responsibility, centralization, bureaucracy, and total war.
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Bureaucracies initially help empires by centralizing power, systemizing records and laws, and standardizing language, money, measures, and social procedures.
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David centralizes authority by centralizing religious ritual in Jerusalem: Yahweh's temple controls sacrifice, and priests control the sacrifice process.
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A pyramid economy means centralized planning, where Pharaoh and palace coordinate state resources; Jiang says such centralization produces inequality, corruption, and waste.
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"Okay? It's a bottom -up process. But the state wants to create permanent cities where people are just in one place all the time...."
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"So, it can tax and exploit people properly. Okay? So, that's what a state proxy does. So, what are the consequences of the over..."
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"Second Rome was Constantinople. The third Rome now is Moscow. And not only that, but they believe they are the true heir to the..."
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"Okay? So, Peter the Great wants to subject the church to his authority as well as the nobility. Right now, the great threat, the..."
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"...that's the first thing. Legalism. Second thing is the idea of centralization, meaning that you have a bureaucracy. You have centralization. And this allows..."
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"...are good for empires because what they do is they do centralization. All right? They're able to centralize the empire, unite the empire, basically...."
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"All right? Basically, keep records, create laws, systemization. And last is the idea of standardization. Standardization. Uniformity. Okay? So, getting people to speak the..."
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"Okay? So what's Moses doing? Well, what Moses is doing is explaining why there are Egyptian priests in the nation of Israel. Right? And..."
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"...economy. And what the pyramid economy represents is centralized planning, right? Centralization. The Pharaoh and his palace are able to coordinate all the resources..."
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"But if you're not, then you become poor. Okay? So inequality is a huge issue. But you also have a problem of corruption, where..."
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"...a Christ of faith. It doesn't really work. Second is the centralization creates inequality, corruption, and waste. And third is religious belief can only..."
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"...now I can't anymore, okay? This is pretty awful. All right, centralization of credit in the hands of the state, okay? By means of..."
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