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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...peasants are pissed off at them because they just killed the noble family. There aren't that many workers. So how can they fight this..."
In Jiang's answer to a student, optimates and populares come from the same narrow noble-family network; the conflict is partly generational, with fathers and grandfathers resisting sons seeking power.
Jiang argues that mass societies inevitably create coordination problems, bureaucracies become too compartmentalized, and secret societies emerge as a way for noble families to preserve control over the bureaucracy.
"...hard to get things done. And if you are of the noble families, you still need to preserve control over the bureaucracy, right? So,..."
"...between the Ottomans and the popular leaders? Okay, there's exactly 20 noble families in Rome. Okay? And so these people, the Ottomans and the..."
"...peasants are pissed off at them because they just killed the noble family. There aren't that many workers. So how can they fight this..."
"...know what they do. Okay? But they usually come from very noble families. We call these the 13 families. Okay? Then at the very..."
"Sidonia. Sidonia was descended from a very Asian and noble family of Aragon. Okay."
"...special is after Rome collapses, the Roman Empire collapses, right? These noble families, they're now impoverished. They go to different places. The city that..."
"...the Catholic Church was in many ways being supported by these noble families not all of them support the Catholic Church but some of..."
"...a bureaucracy, and therefore, each region is controlled by a certain noble family. Okay? The patricians. And as a result, what happened is, as......"
"But once they're being settled through Europe, the conflict between these noble families in Rome then become a conflict amongst these different groups, okay?..."
"...And she married into the Russian Empire. She had a Russian noble family. It was very common at this stage for the European powers..."
"...is a Danish polymath as well. He comes from a very noble family, and he spent a lot of his time doing observations. Okay?..."
"...remember David usurped the throne from Saul Saul came from a noble family and he was elected by the chieftains to be their king..."
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...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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