in thread "Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion I": Lots of good stuff in this reading. The beginning is largely a fast summary of his thesis in Evolution of Civilizations, which I also really liked. It’s a good macro-orientation. I found this overall accurate and helpful, but I’m gonna comment on some ... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 Lots of good stuff i (view hidden) 22 One of the important things I want to emphasize from chapter 3 is that Russia began industrialization under the tsars. In the popular imagination Stalin often gets credit for the whole thing, when in reality he successfully completed a program that had sta... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 One of the important (view hidden) 22 Of the industrial forms, it seems to me that the big difference is between the original entrepreneur-owner control structure, and the various other forms which came after. The progression he describes from control by bankers (“financial capitalism”) to... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 Of the industrial fo (view hidden) 22