anon_zygi

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 ... 14mo ago

Lots of good stuff i

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... 14mo ago

One of the important

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... 14mo ago

Of the industrial fo