Formerlyfarman [none/use name]

Yhea, that he is a pedophile doesn’t make the parts of his work I agree with any less true. Hell the other day I posted a Herbert Spencer quote in the news mega, to sort of make the point that if you feel sad for the dead American terrorists, you have worse takes than this guy.

I don’t know who that is, but I often use my pirated copies of cockshots books as references, that someone may be wrong about some things, does not invalidate other positions.

That being said, that letter is disgusting, everyone who signed it should be redacted.

As other people pointed out, this meant that there was no dominant class other than state beurocrats, or the state military, this is an environment ripe for class collaborationism and subjugation of class interests to the state. similar economic situations happened in mexico and turkey, with similar results. state beurocrats and military factions held the largest share of the economy.

Germany was not a single country back then, so feudal transitions were varied along the territory, but we can more or less make a distinction between east and west of the elbe. This is due to ecological reasons, east has a more continental climate with longer winters, shorter growing seasons, and more importantly shorter harvest seasons. This later factor raises the would be free market wages during this period with respect to the rest of the year, this imposes an economic incentive to restrict said free market mechanisms, a key one is to restrict peasant mobility. This along with lower agricultural productivity means less cities.

Trade reasons, Atlantic trade in particular, but also traditional European trade routes across the ring and Danube were mostly concentrated, on west Germany or Austria. Again this meant low urbanization in ostland relative to west Germany.

Prussia was never an strictly feudal regime, it evolved from the teutonic order, so it started as a more or less centralized military organization Wich managed plantations in a more systematic way, with the goal of extraction for export, than normal feudal landlords who were mostly interested in self sufficiency. Junkers were relatively small land owners, and this had less of a say on how to run things.

There are also political factors, Napoleonic invasions broke down feudal institutions such as guilds in west Germany but not in the east.

All this are the reasons why the Prussian regime preserved feudal characteristics, why it industrialized relatively late, and why there has been a 20% or so productivity(measured through wages) gap between east and west Germany since at least Napoleonic times.

Things are not happening because we lack a ron Paul happening emote.

It was years ago, I’m not gonna look for it, but he posted another article on similar issues earlier today.

As I understand it is market forces that prevent investment, variable demand discourages increasing capacity.

It’s an issue of volume. The explosives, can be made into bombs, artillery, missiles, etc, but the volume of whatever is made is limited. They can’t produce enough volume of whatever is the end product. The claim that bombs are better than a trusty cannon, is a way to justify the lack of production. But there is a still a lack of production, due to problems in the chemical industry.

No it does, in one of the articles tervell posted on the Ukraine war, they said the botleneck was explosives production. Then someone argued that the lack of artillery production didn’t matter because the us uses some acronym bombs that are better(they are not, canon artillery delivers orders of magnitude more volume), without addressing that the botleneck was chemical precursors to explosives, and that acronym bombs are presumably also made of explosives.

A yes I used to have horrible nausea in the morning. even then, I was able to eat raw carrots. And That’s about it.

The nausea is due to stress, it goes away eventually if you take enough stimulants, like tea.

I think in this case it is, this is a very bad framing.