It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally…View Post
a more macro analysis would be that austria-hungary, russia, and the ottoman empire treated the majority of their populations as slaves (as feudal monarchies tend to do), and certain ethnic groups as less-than-slaves, and that was just gonna end up exploding at some point, and that occurring would cause the present system of european capitalism and its supply chains to come to a halt, creating the need for war, expansion, and the creation of new supply lines in order to stabilize capitalism.
a more macro analysis would be that austria-hungary, russia, and the ottoman empire treated the majority of their populations as slaves (as feudal monarchies tend to do), and certain ethnic groups as less-than-slaves, and that was just gonna end up exploding at some point, and that occurring would cause the present system of european capitalism and its supply chains to come to a halt, creating the need for war, expansion, and the creation of new supply lines in order to stabilize capitalism.