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Jiang argues that a war-making nation-state must take care of workers and soldiers because the whole people contribute to military production and survival.
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Jiang argues that a war-making nation-state must take care of workers and soldiers because the whole people contribute to military production and survival.
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Jiang says Bismarck understood that a nation-state must make warriors and keep workers healthy because workers produce the machines of war.
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diagnosis
He presents the 1848 revolutions as uprisings across Europe in which bourgeoisie, middle class, and workers demanded democracy, liberalism, socialism, and limits on religious power.
prediction
He predicts that pensions will go bankrupt in five to ten years because there are too many retirees and not enough workers.
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In the corporation metaphor, elite families are owners, the people are workers who generate wealth, and the middle class or PMC are managers.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that Marx was right in a broader sense because after World War II industrial societies made workers and unions central to social order and political reform.
definition
Jiang contrasts workers, who create value, with money, which he says only creates more speculative money.
evidence
Jiang uses CEO pay as evidence of the post-1980s shift: he contrasts roughly one million dollars and about 20 times worker pay in the 1970s with about twenty million dollars and 200 to 300 times worker pay today.
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"All right. So the idea here is that, listen, we're a German nation. Okay. And as a nation state, as a people, we must..."
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"...is the fact that we are a nation. We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence. He's not sure that he will..."
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"...send sick soldiers to the battlefield, right? You don't want sick workers as well. That's why he passed a lot of progressive worker reforms,..."
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"...uprising a combination of these people the bourgeoisie middle class and workers who called for changes in government okay some places were violent some..."
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"status quo powers okay and that's why you have these revolutions throughout Europe okay so look at France okay this is a French um..."
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"...gone. Why? Because there are too many retirees and not enough workers. All right? So back in the year 2001, you had a problem...."
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"But I will in future classes. Okay? I just need you to remember that there are three pillars of power at the core of..."
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"...this. Think of society as a corporation. The people are the workers. Right? They're the ones who do the real work. The elite, these..."
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"...Lead. To. A. Political. Revolution. And. So. You. Can. Make. The. Worker. As. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Society. Okay. Does. It. Make...."
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"...Any. Value. Money. Just. Creates. More. Money. Okay. Speculative. But. The. Workers. Create. Value. The. Productive. And. Therefore. You. Have. To. Treat. Your. Workers...."
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"...Revolution. And. So. Now. You. Need. To. Transition. Away. From. The. Worker. To. Something. Else. Okay. Another. Ideology. That. Allows. The. Elite. To. Amass...."
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