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He presents Darwinism as a theology of human progress that legitimated imperialism, racism, and eugenics by replacing Christian equality with survival of the fittest.
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Imperialism
The Industrial Revolution makes the bourgeoisie the new elite and creates a need for property-rights protection, markets, resources, and imperial expansion.
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The Industrial Revolution makes the bourgeoisie the new elite and creates a need for property-rights protection, markets, resources, and imperial expansion.
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Jiang argues that monarchy cannot secure bourgeois property rights because a king can be overthrown, whereas the nation-state is harder to overthrow and has both the resources and desire for imperialism.
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European imperialism is driven by resource needs and a cultural mission justified by the belief that Europeans are the master race with a white man's burden to civilize others.
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Jiang accepts Marx's diagnosis that capitalism is all-consuming, imperial, consolidating, and structurally unequal.
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Shakespeare himself was provincial rather than imperialist, but his legacy was co-opted by British imperialists to justify colonization as civilizing education.
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Jiang says crusade rhetoric, logic, and emotion later justify European conquest, exploration, and imperialism.
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Race and racism are framed as modern concepts produced by imperialism's need to justify conquest by calling conquered peoples inferior.
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"...Daurism came into being Europeans were engaged in a process of imperialism. They were going around the world and conquering other people and colonizing..."
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"And evolution would give rise to racism and eugenics, okay? So before Darwinism, we didn't really have a concept of race because everyone was..."
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"So might makes right. So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and..."
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"...So expansion. Another thing is that you need to engage in imperialism. Another problem created by the problem of the Industrial Revolution is the..."
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"...bourgeoisie. Also, the nation -state has the resources to engage in imperialism, and it has the desire to engage in imperialism. Monarchies are usually..."
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"...Okay? All right. So, this now gives us the age of imperialism. The Europeans now need more resources, but they're also spreading their cultural..."
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"...and grow to create value, it starts wars. So you have imperialism, right? Because as a factory owner, you want to create new markets,..."
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"And the idea here is this. Capitalism can only lead to extreme inequality. Why? Because the point of capitalism is to generate as much..."
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"...this is a concept that was introduced during the age of imperialism right at the end towards the end of the 19th century by..."
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"and this is why shakespeare is important because shakespeare allows him to say well do you have a shakespeare do you have do you..."
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"...is going to basically justify the age of conquest, exploration, and imperialism which will follow after this, okay? Let those who for a long..."
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"People actually believe this. Adventurism, Romanism, okay? Chivalry. Chivalry means, chivalry, okay, we didn't discuss this, but it's important that you know. Chivalry. Chivalry..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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