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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
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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"...outside world. Why? Because it's focused on maintaining control over its peasantry, okay?"
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"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..."
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"...is that the nobility would consolidate all this land. And the peasantry became a renter class. And they were forced to go in the..."
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"...enlightenment and freedom, and therefore sent a signal to liberate the peasantry. You needed to kill the Tsar in an act of violence, and..."
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"...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..."
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"...workers in Russia is about 3 % of the population. The peasantry is 80%. And Lenin's argument is that the peasantry is 80%. And..."
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"...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..."
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"...Because his wealth was basically based on... The oppression of the peasantry, right? He actually wanted to give up all his money. He wanted..."
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"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..."
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"...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..."
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"...trying to differentiate themselves from the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry. And one way that they want to do this is through their..."
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"...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..."
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