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He contrasts the Prussian or German model as a nation of blood, language, land, duty, and battle rather than chosen contract.
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Prussia
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Sparta, the Aztecs, and Prussia are presented as early compulsory-schooling societies united by war-making.
diagnosis
He treats the postwar destruction of Prussia and Konigsberg as an intentional civilizational destruction, not merely a territorial settlement.
model
Jiang says Prussia became both creative and militarily successful because geographic vulnerability forced open cooperative competition, unity, education, and human-capital development.
model
Prussia's success is attributed to reflection and resilience under vassalage, combined with a more progressive European attitude toward subjects than Muscovy.
diagnosis
Jiang contrasts violent suppression elsewhere in 1848 with Prussian concessions, arguing Prussian rulers respected citizens because unity was necessary for survival amid enemies.
prediction
Destroying Konigsberg is said to curse the world because the desire for German unity remains while Prussia, once a restraint on Hitler, has been removed.
diagnosis
The Prussian army was disciplined and elite but structurally brittle because it could not afford casualties, moved slowly, and fought inflexibly.
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"citizens and in return its citizens must be willing to sacrifice its life for the nation and that's why um the French Revolution was..."
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"for us because you agree to be a citizen of this nation which guarantees you certain rights pressure is like no you fight because..."
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"Right? So school is not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A..."
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"...its children. Really good, right? And the third society is called Prussia. And actually Prussia is a system that everyone uses today. Do you..."
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"Prussia. The Prussians, the greatest military in Europe for centuries. They were engaged in war making as well. Okay, do you understand this? Why..."
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"...which was part of a nation that no longer exists called Prussia. And for a couple hundred years, Prussia was the strongest military, the..."
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"And the rationale was that Prussia is a militaristic society that is hell -bent on world domination. And by eliminating Prussia, we can now..."
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"...and militaristic? And the answer is, because the Western prejudice against Prussia is wrong. They were not a militaristic nation bent on world domination...."
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"...to gel together. The most successful of these city -states is Prussia. And for the longest time, Prussia was a vassal state of the..."
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"...complete unification of Germany under Prussian leadership. Okay, so how was Prussia able to be so successful? Well, as we discussed last class, there..."
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"and Prussia for the longest time was under the vacillage of the Swedes, the Poles, the Lutheranians. And as a result, they're always engaged..."
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"So let's look at the few things he did. He radically reformed the Prussian judicial system so that you had rule of law, so..."
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