He says socialism appears to be the natural evolution of industrial democracy because workers, poor people, and the middle class can form a majority against concentrated capital.
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He says socialism appears to be the natural evolution of industrial democracy because workers, poor people, and the middle class can form a majority against concentrated capital.
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He models industrialism as creating bourgeoisie, workers, and a middle class that together challenged the old land, military, and religious power structure.
Jiang defines capitalism as making money the structure of society and says it creates industrialization while becoming all-consuming, consolidating, alienating, and dehumanizing.
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"So that's a question for us. Why would he say this, okay? So let's look at what socialism is. Okay? Let's look at socialism...."
"So think of after World War II, Europe didn't become communist, it didn't become capitalist, it became socialist. It had a very strong welfare..."
"extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according..."
"for most of catholic europe but then with the rise of industrial ism you have new people come into power okay so for example..."
"...Call. Capitalism. And. Capitalism. Of. Course. Led. To. The. Industrial. Revolution. Industrialism. Okay? Capitalism. Meant. That. Societies. Were. Becoming. Welfare. And. Welfare. More. Industrial...."
"Profit. It's. An. All. Consuming. Idea. Which. Can. Ultimately. Lead. To. The. Destruction. Of. The. Planet. Okay. That's. First. Problem. What's. Another. Problem. With...."
"Multi. Faceted. Individual. Who. Likes. To. Create. And. Love. But. In. Capitalism. You're. Only. Your. Production. Value. You're. Only. The. Amount. Of. Money. In...."
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