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
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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.
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.
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.
Jiang accepts Marx's diagnosis that capitalism is all-consuming, imperial, consolidating, and structurally unequal.
Shakespeare himself was provincial rather than imperialist, but his legacy was co-opted by British imperialists to justify colonization as civilizing education.
Jiang says crusade rhetoric, logic, and emotion later justify European conquest, exploration, and imperialism.
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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"Yeah. So. So what she means by that is that Trump is unique in America and that he's able to capture people's attention so..."
"...Daurism came into being Europeans were engaged in a process of imperialism. They were going around the world and conquering other people and colonizing..."
"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..."
"So might makes right. So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and..."
"Um, I mean, like, um, the idea that, uh, society is centered around the maximization of individual happiness, which is completely absurd. Right. I..."
"No, I like, I like the different perspective. I don't necessarily agree with it, but like, cause the reason why I'm skeptical is because..."
"...So expansion. Another thing is that you need to engage in imperialism. Another problem created by the problem of the Industrial Revolution is the..."
"...bourgeoisie. Also, the nation -state has the resources to engage in imperialism, and it has the desire to engage in imperialism. Monarchies are usually..."
"...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..."
"...and grow to create value, it starts wars. So you have imperialism, right? Because as a factory owner, you want to create new markets,..."
"And the idea here is this. Capitalism can only lead to extreme inequality. Why? Because the point of capitalism is to generate as much..."
"...this is a concept that was introduced during the age of imperialism right at the end towards the end of the 19th century by..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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