gosh its almost like theres somebody who predicted this long ago and compiled it into a framework, a scientific framework if you will. Gosh what was his name, erm, charles was it? Charles Moxie?

  • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    "But the hard science of Turchin’s approach cannot explain all things. After the Great Depression in what some might call a negotiated settlement, elites negotiated a unionised settlement with the masses in a moment of enlightened self-interest."

    yeah, things would be much better explained by Marxist analysis than "enlightened self-interest" eureka moments of Capital suddenly realizing they had to knock some of their shit off if they didn't want the guillotine. It was not benevolence, it was the outcome of the haves acquiescing to the growing social movement of the have-nots.