The pre-capitalist order organized around religion, king, military, and inherited status.
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The pre-capitalist order organized around religion, king, military, and inherited status.
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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.
Jiang says the Concert of Europe reduced battlefield conflict among monarchies but failed to resolve the underlying conflict between old-order authority and the industrial new order.
In response to the student, Jiang defines capitalism as the belief that society can be structured around capital, in direct conflict with an older order organized by religion, king, and military.
Jiang's final model says the old order and capitalism each saw social democracy as a threat and therefore mutated it into communism to delegitimize it.
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"...around capital, okay? And this was a direct threat to the old order, okay? The old order, which focused on religion, the king, the..."
"So the old order, it was a threat to communism. capitalism what they did was they would mutate social democracy into communism in order..."
"extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according..."
"...is ultimately what led to the french revolution where the new order okay these people work together to overthrow the old order and this..."
"...this problem okay you're not resolving this conflict between the new order and the old order right the these people want to maintain the..."
"...if you don't do anything about the situation eventually the new order is going to consume us the new order of the bourgeoisie middle..."
"So, can we understand that capitalist equals to communism, or capitalism equals to communism, or communism is a weapon of capitalism, but if we..."
"...Remember that history is a constant process of inversion, where the old order is being dethroned by the new order. So that's one idea..."
"...so, he would become a tidal wave to wash over the old order and build the messianic age. All he had to do was..."
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