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Capitalism, The State, and How We Got Here with Christian Parenti

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The Political Crisis of Feudalism

There's environmental crisis, soil depletion linked to the rise of ruling classes. The military conflict means that each state needs more and more of a warrior caste or class. That then is another driver for these states to go abroad looking for sources of wealth in order to fund what are fundamentally political projects of conquest. It's the political crisis of feudalism which produces the discovery of the Americas.

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