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Jiang identifies the dominant school story of civilization as a Marxist-developmental sequence from agriculture and surplus to elites, cities, writing, property, religion, arts, science, war, slavery, and debt.
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He argues that Marxism makes socialism more extreme and confusing through false consciousness, global class struggle, abolition of property, and a vanguard party, which discredits socialism rather than merely advancing it.
Bakunin's warning that scientific administration would brutalize mankind is used to condemn Marxist/vanguard rule as no different from transnational capital or the British Empire.
Jiang identifies the dominant school story of civilization as a Marxist-developmental sequence from agriculture and surplus to elites, cities, writing, property, religion, arts, science, war, slavery, and debt.
The Bolshevik split is framed as Menshevik patience for Marxist industrial sequence versus Leninist vanguard acceleration through the peasantry.
Jiang says Marxism appeals as salvation and redemption because it answers real suffering under capitalism, even though its historical prophecy did not come true.
Hegelian dialectic is a line model because conflict between ideas is still understood as progress toward truth.
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"And so it sounds right, so why is Marx screwing around this okay? He also says that, okay, you also need a party, you..."
"extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according..."
"Available to everyone will be a general scientific education, especially the learning of the scientific method, the habit of correct thinking, the ability to..."
"Okay, so what he's saying is this. The ultimate project of Marxism, where you have something elite, a vanguard in charge. This is no..."
"today we discuss the idea of civilization and first I want to present to you the general understanding of how we get civilization then..."
"and technology and with these three things in place now you can grow as a society okay you can now build cities why because..."
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"Once industrialization happens, capitalism will automatically make the proletariat class conscious. And when they're class conscious, they become industrialized. They will unite and overthrow..."
"You'll be no different from the Tsar. So eventually Lenin and the Bolsheviks will split apart from the Mensheviks. And it would be to..."
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"...today, then we also have these issues. And if you analyze Marxism, Marx's diagnosis of capitalism, then it helps explain why the world is..."
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Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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