(the previous was posted prematurely & without editing; addendum follows)

Why don’t we start just a bit smaller, and with a realistic rather than fantasy number: Try just over 750.000-1.000.000 for the American Civil War, rather than an inflated 1.600.000. Which–at its wavetop–is one tenth of one percent of a billion. Can you begin to go larger than that? Yet Altair says “Billions”. Even if…

& you might be interested in the book “1848" which goes into really great detail about those revolutions; there is even a chapter about the impetus for immigration to the US which is fascinating...

!! Another really excellent point; and yes, the first time I read it, the same thing happened when I read Das Kapital; I started making notes of “No, I totally disagree with this and it’s dumb” until my hand got sore and then I chucked it against the wall.

That’s a really good point, and well informed. I’ve not heard of the revolutions podcast, I will look it up–thanks!

Help me out with how you think an authoritarian dictatorship is the same as capitalism. Authoritarian dictatorships wrapped in symbols of freedom don’t allow for personal property for their populations; they take whatever they want. Or freedom of movement within–and without–their own countries. Or freedom of speech.…

Billions? Seriously, billions of people?

I felt a deep, incredibly sad irony while I watched socialists protest at the Brandenburg gate in Berlin–they were literally standing on top of markers in the ground where the socialist government of East Germany killed people fleeing communism. I feel the same when I read this article; despite evidence to the…