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Jiang argues that Russia's long war of attrition in Ukraine is good for Russia because it restructures the economy around war production and industrialization.
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Industrialization
The British Empire's main purpose, in Jiang's summary, was to maintain global trade by opening markets and securing sea routes for Britain's finished goods.
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He argues that manifesto measures such as central banking, communications centralization, industrial production, and schooling can serve capitalist interests as much as communist ones.
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He says Mao used communism for legitimacy, Soviet support, rapid industrialization, and national sovereignty, and that U.S. embargo pressure helped push Mao fully into the communist camp.
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Post-Civil War America becomes an imperial power through industrialization, Alaska, the Spanish-American War, the Philippines, Cuba, world wars, and Pax Americana.
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The British Empire's main purpose, in Jiang's summary, was to maintain global trade by opening markets and securing sea routes for Britain's finished goods.
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Jiang says the Soviet Union was enormous and imperial but still behind the West in manufacturing, technology, expertise, and human capital.
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Jiang says the Soviet Union could reverse engineer American technology and build its own industry after receiving Lend-Lease support.
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"All right. Now you're like, wait. But Donald Trump's an idiot. Where would he get this? Where would he get this idea from? How..."
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"Why? Well, because first of all, what it does is it allows Russia to industrialize its economy. Okay? It allows Russia to center its..."
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"in 1838 he signed the Bill ofpm and then in the 18нали you only got owner rights anyway after all you need to end..."
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"It's the same thing, really, right? Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, equal liability of our work, combination of..."
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"Even though peasants, peasants become workers, if you have a party to help the, the process, okay? So, that was Lenin's contribution. And Mao..."
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"...was not that important. What's important is to industrialize very quickly. Industrialization. Okay, so for him, what's important is industrialization. The other idea is..."
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"Okay? So, so again, with Hamilton it's about empire for Jefferson it's about democracy. There's a conflict, right? What Lincoln does which is revolution..."
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"Alright? America now controls the Philippines as well as Cuba. Then um, World War I America goes and defeats Germany. World War II is..."
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"its main purpose is actually to to maintain global trade why because remember Britain is the first nation to industrialize therefore it's producing a..."
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"But those are your two choices. Okay? That's Japan. You can either invade the Soviet Union or Southeast Asia. Okay. The Soviet Union is..."
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"at the end of the day, what the Soviet Union can do is reverse engineer all this technology and build its own industry. Does..."
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"...the British and the Americans, financed a great deal of Japan's industrialization. Because the Anglo -American Empire wanted Japan as an ally. It was..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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