
Hinge Points S2E1: Dog-gone-erland
Chapo Trap House
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Englishmen Create Capitalism Because of the Conditions of Being English
Englishmen create capitalism because of the conditions of being English. And what we're saying here is if you don't have that, if that part of the world is just integrated into the system and therefore the conditions to create Englishmen don't exist, does that mean that we get relatively stable, larger polity at all times? The only place that's gonna be stabilized is one that is able to experience the conditions of a capitalist power with a subject other. No other European polity had that experience in that post Black Death world than England because of their relationship to Ireland, which is wholly unique in Europe.
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