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Europe had a host of material conditions that led it to this position. It is relatively resource poor, and was constantly strapped for hard currency because the trade routes with the rest of the known world were mostly one way: Chinese people didn't want a wool shirt from England, but English lords wanted silk and spices and porcelain.

This led to robust and relatively stable networks of credit that allowed nobles to engage in increasingly sophisticated and expensive versions of war and exploitation because they had to in order to keep up with their neighbor, who was trying to do the same thing. Because they were always in debt they had to keep doing more expensive things to secure more resources to pay back creditors, and build institutions to manage their money and regulate finance to keep everything from collapsing.

Eventually some landlords on an island found themselves in a new social relation to their tenants, where it was in their best interest to let them make their own living somewhere else instead of farming, and charging rent instead of feudal dues. This put everyone else on the same track or they risked being priced out of their lands and titles by a new class using a new form of socialized labor.

Essentially Europeans had to compensate for their economic disadvantages in ways that drove them to invent systems that created more productive capacity extremely quickly. I got most of this from The Origin of Capitalism, Graeber's book on Debt, The Verge and Hell on Earth. But that's my elevator pitch when I talk to people about this.

Edit: Since you read the Verge I'll just add, I think it's missing class analysis, it is looking at a set of economic structures and observing that they tend in a direction without tying it to social relations of production. I heartily recommend Wood's The Origin of Capitalism on that point specifically.

Love to gather my mutant children around the table so my wife can shriek curses from the BOBY MEGOLY

Dems are definitely going to cave on the legislative fight and give the GOP every evil thing they want to get more war right?

I did not realize how unprepared I was to be scolded and told I am antisemitic by liberals for being happy that this guy is gone. The next week is gonna suck in some ways.

All the ghouls realizing that even the strongest blood pact can't save you from death:

My understanding is that Medicare has the clout to force providers to accept lower prices, that's part of what makes the program viable. They say what they're going to pay and if you want to treat any meemaws and pawpaws you have to take what they're giving you. Since the prices are so inflated anyway it doesn't really hurt anything except the size of the margins.

What could possibly be the context for this? They're really collecting weirdos at lemm.ee

I mean it's been falling for a while now. They were talking about how it didn't look great before the uprising in October.

Who is this person? Is this real? I feel like the simulation just shidded her out in the last couple weeks, I can't remember hearing about her before.

I see. I guess it just feels hopeless in the US context, we have so little leverage on the left. I admire your optimism comrade. I hope the war ends soon.

No I agree, funding the war in Ukraine is pointlessly killing thousands of people over US geopolitical interests that are bad for the world. I personally oppose that.

I just am not sure I could get anywhere with Gaetz trying to argue that we share a political program and leveraging that into ending the war. Or convincing people who like Gaetz that they could meet their goals better through collective class struggle. I'm not sure these people are actually anti war. I think they're against Joe's war.