Lessons From History | The Economics of War & Peace Episode 2

[@johndoh1000]

This is a master class in geopolitical economics.

[@johndoh1000]

Mad respect to Kaynes for such a prolific prediction.

[@sanyopoweraid1]

I'd be curious to hear which Marxists see plunder as something that merely happened in a by-gone era. The Marxists I read understood that there is primitive and ongoing accumulation by plunder. Very good lecture, in any case.

[@veyselbatmaz2123]

Digitalism will take over Capitalism. Then there will be no war; just humanly fight. Excellent content and presentation. After the abolition of private property (not personal property) fights cease also.

[@gyurmisherpa5451]

😊😊

[@juliandarley]

really fascinating. thank you.

[@flow963]

Excellent. Thank you

[@oldmonk2.1]

It's a clear & neat explanation of today's dynamics of war & prony capitalism ❤

[@gavinshickle1814]

I wish Eisenhower never uttered the words "military industrial complex". Today every half-wit on the planet lets that phrase fall out of their face and considers themselves some kind of prophet imbued with the wisdom of the ancients.

[@rovingrav]

Colonization, plundering of other lands is not a modern phenomena. Any study of ancient history will show how wide it was in Greek, Roman and earlier times.

[@longvu-x2h]

Vietnam War is not a proxy war

[@nguyenhuytuquan]

Why not? Soviet Union and China backed the North. The U.S backed the south. It's a civil war backed by Great powers - meaning a proxy war. From 1964 onward, the U.S force joined battles on the ground. The war had a new feature: foreign interference.

[@detritiv0re144]

It was the very model of a proxy war.