He compares Sparta to historical China: both are described as conservative and isolationist because internal peasant or subject control absorbs political attention.
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Peasantry
He compares Sparta to historical China: both are described as conservative and isolationist because internal peasant or subject control absorbs political attention.
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"...outside world. Why? Because it's focused on maintaining control over its peasantry, okay?"
"There's too much internal chaos. China just is not interested in the outside world. So China, for its history, has both been conservative, doesn't..."
"...enlightenment and freedom, and therefore sent a signal to liberate the peasantry. You needed to kill the Tsar in an act of violence, and..."
"...fanatics, they really believe that their mission is to liberate the peasantry, they're probably very opinionated and it's probably very hard to organize them..."
"...workers in Russia is about 3 % of the population. The peasantry is 80%. And Lenin's argument is that the peasantry is 80%. And..."
"...There's a lot of violence. Okay? It's very Pagan. And the peasantry, even to this day, maintains a lot of Pagan rituals, a lot..."
"...Because his wealth was basically based on... The oppression of the peasantry, right? He actually wanted to give up all his money. He wanted..."
"Okay? There are lots of interchange between the proletariat and the peasantry. There's lots of interchange between the bourgeoisie and the nobility. Okay? These..."
"...middle class, you'll be much more educated than nobility and the peasantry. You will read books. You will read newspapers. That's why we have..."
"...trying to differentiate themselves from the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry. And one way that they want to do this is through their..."
"...Church in order to reduce tensions between the nobility and the peasantry. So that's the first mechanism. Then you have the Crusades. So to..."
"...He sees an opportunity to channel the religious energies of the peasantry against the Muslims, okay? So what he does is, in the year..."
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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