The podcast Chapo Trap House’s miniseries Hell on Earth is an entertaining story which proposes that the Thirty Years’ War midwifed the birth of capitalism. Ultimately, however, the interesting argument doesn’t hold up.
Plus, the Long Crisis of the 17th Century produced the Westphalian nation state, which was the state formation that Capitalism would eventually require to enforce reify itself.
Plus, the Long Crisis of the 17th Century produced the Westphalian nation state, which was the state formation that Capitalism would eventually require to enforce reify itself.