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The Explosion of Capitalism in Spain
Spain is the first early modern hegemon Spain defined the terms of the fucking contest. And what these explosions are is a given country's social base coming into coming to terms with capitalism as a mode of life. It is the moment when enough people are feeling the destiny in the air, I guess, to act. You have that happen in England in the English Civil War which we talked about in hell on it on earth. You have it in France the French Revolution. Now in Russia with the Russian Revolution. But you don't have it in Spain, which started off the entire struggle for early modern hegemony in the first place.