Glossary
Jiang's label for German nationalism grounded in language, culture, race, and war-making power.
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iron and blood
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...And so this becomes Germany, okay, or what we call iron and blood. So now you have these theories of nationalism come out into..."
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model
Germany's rival nationalism arose as a way to defeat France by grounding the nation-state in language, culture, race, and iron and blood rather than social contract theory.
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The Bismarck passage read aloud rejects speeches and majority decisions as decisive and says great questions are decided by iron and blood.
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Bismarck is presented as both anti-liberal man of iron and pragmatic welfare-state builder seeking a content unified Germany.
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"...And so this becomes Germany, okay, or what we call iron and blood. So now you have these theories of nationalism come out into..."
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"...was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849, but by iron and blood. Okay."
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"...was a great mistake of 1848 and 1849, but by iron and blood. Through violence and sacrifice. So when you read the speech, you..."
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"A man of violence, a man of sternness. But he was an extremely pragmatic man. And his ambition was to have a unified Germany..."
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"...theory was the social contract. The Germans, their theory is iron and blood. Okay? Race. The Americans had a different theory because America was..."
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"...us together. It's language that's worth fighting for. It's race, nation, blood. Okay. Okay. And this becomes the philosophy of the German state. At..."
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"...or the Germans okay and it's the idea of um iron and blood so a nation is not something that you choose to get..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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