definition
He defines socialism as redistribution of wealth from rich to poor, with the middle class gaining power and status as the decisive coalition partner.
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Middle class
He models industrialism as creating bourgeoisie, workers, and a middle class that together challenged the old land, military, and religious power structure.
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definition
Jiang distinguishes socialism from communism by saying socialism redistributes property while communism destroys property, thereby making the rich and middle class unite against the poor.
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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.
diagnosis
Jiang says America's public rationale for bringing China into the game was middle-class growth and democratization, but he calls that a fraud masking the desire to make China subservient.
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diagnosis
Suppression of aspiring middle classes by higher classes creates revolutionary dynamics such as the French Revolution.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that middle-class life is now difficult because monopolistic bureaucracies control expensive essentials such as hospital services, schooling, and housing.
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model
In the corporation metaphor, elite families are owners, the people are workers who generate wealth, and the middle class or PMC are managers.
definition
Rent seeking means exploiting a power position to extract wealth from others, and the professional managerial class turns to rent seeking and worker exploitation when the corporation is in trouble.
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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...."
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"...are three classes, okay? You have the rich, you have the middle class, and you have the poor. Okay? Redistribution is doing is taking..."
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"...we need to destroy class okay so the idea of the middle class updating power that's bad what we should have is just everyone..."
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"...idea of socialism right they don't want this unity between the middle class and the work and the workers they want the middle class..."
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"...workers and then because of this industrial economy you have the middle class okay the middle class are just like lawyers teachers accountants journalists..."
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"...China to play the game because this game will allow the middle class, right? The middle class to rise. It will make China much..."
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"But I think if the middle class, like, if they want more, the more higher class, they will not allow the middle class to,..."
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"Yeah, and that's what creates the French Revolution. Okay?"
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"...is with the over -bureaucratization of society, it's almost impossible for middle class people, ordinary people to have a good life now. Okay? Here's..."
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"But I will in future classes. Okay? I just need you to remember that there are three pillars of power at the core of..."
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"...these families, are the owners. And these people in between, the middle class, are the managers. Okay? So, again, this is a very simple..."
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"It's in debt. Okay? So, at this point, what happens is this. You would think the managers would save the families. Listen, guys. We..."
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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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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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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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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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