He identifies transnational capital as globally dominant and says it faces opposition from nationalism, religion/Orthodoxy, and technology-based forces in the four-state rivalry.
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Ideology
He identifies transnational capital as globally dominant and says it faces opposition from nationalism, religion/Orthodoxy, and technology-based forces in the four-state rivalry.
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He uses literary references (Milton, Goethe, Ayn Rand, Dostoevsky, Augustine) as evidence that each civilization’s strategy comes from different stories about God, selfhood, and pride.
Jiang argues materialism was created to make the unfair financial system seem fair by replacing God with money as the highest good.
Transnational capital is said to care about profit rather than ideology, which is why it could work with Bolsheviks despite anti-capitalist rhetoric.
Jiang lists three standard explanations for the Yale-style confrontation: protected parenting, consumer/customer logic in universities, and ideological training about racism and privilege.
He argues that the nation-state is probably the most powerful ideology in human history because it has generated both tremendous achievement and catastrophic wars including the two world wars.
He defines end of history as the recurring claim that ideological struggle has culminated in a final, perfect order that can endure for the rest of history.
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"Can Exploit other people so there's competition To to join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to join the..."
"Okay, so let's just list them the first is of course nationalism right there are people like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin who believe..."
"So in other words, what's happening is that There's a civil war going on in the world where right now transnational capital is Dominant..."
"Okay? Because of their pride. And the thing about Paradise Lost is that when you read it, and we'll read a part of it..."
"Because if we can learn for ourselves, we can be like God. And God created us to be his slaves and his servants, okay?..."
"Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit...."
"...England were sponsoring major intellectuals to come up with the major ideologies to support the idea that money is God okay and these include..."
"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
"Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. It's not between God and us. It's not between the divine and the..."
"...is, actually, transnational capital cares about profit. They don't care about ideology. All right? What drives them is money, not ideas. And the third..."
"We just have to do what we need in order to obtain power. Then we can create our socialist paradise. Okay? All right? All..."
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