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>>3228210
No.

No, because by definition, the third world is those who didn't side with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

>democide by north vietnam/viet cong: 214,000
>democide by the US: 6,000
really makes me think

>>3228158
My Skydaddy is stronger than your Skydaddy?

>>3228104
No it's just called some countries are better than others.

>>3227935
>has nothing to do with India
Yeah, it just has almost nothing to do with India. Overlapping geography, superpower by 2020 1 - haters 0

>>3227944
The schizophrenic ward is more to the right (/pol/)

>Indus valley civilisation

Didn't conquering empires move in a west to east direction OVER the Indus valley.

And besides any self sustaining indus valley civilisation killed itself out pretty quick cause they salted out their irrigation pans pretty fucking quick.

>>3227889
>but the later part of their life is low quality
No fucking shit. Old age isn't fun.

>>3227900
The point is we are spending a tremendous resource to prolong this least productive and least enjoyable period of people's lives. Is it worthwhile doing so?

>>3227905
Every century always did. This shit aint new.

From developed Western societies flooding their old folks with pention to more traditional societies allowing their grandparents to live with them, if cunts still value the concept of family, taking care of the youngest and oldest of them would still be a thing.

>>3227860
>Minoans
>recently discovered

You what?

>recently discovered

by you?

>>3227843
>Why does Byzantine get so little attention?

Because 18th-19th century scholarship has created this image of it as a somehow degenerated and decadent shadow of the Roman Empire, instead of its own vibrant civilisation. For instance, they invented floating watermills.

>>3227843
Cause everyone hates Greeks, truly sneaky bastards.

>>3227843
>western
Seing how they were our medieval arch enemies their empire was even overglorified to emphasize our own.

For God and Kaiser by Richard Basset.

What period of time are you interested in? Have a look at declassified JIC (joint intelligence committee) papers

>>3227449
probably 18th Century, the sort of time the British Empire really started looking to China as a potential interest

and IIRC the JIC is a post-WW1 organisation so I doubt they would help

Well there was no formal intelligence service in that period, but maybe look at towards documents of the east India company in the national archives

>>3227299
>Is this tradition the only one with such features?
No, I can't think of which though off the top of my head, besides ancient Egypt. There's other religions that give instructions for what to do after you die, what you will encounter, etc. Fug, can't remember...Also Orthodox tollhouses lol...but there's other ones.

>>3227299
Many Hindu schools have this practice of preparing for death, but I'll speak on Gaudiya Vaishnavism specifically here.

The moment of death is seen as crucial to liberation, as liberation is very hard to attain in embodied material life. Whatever one thinks at the moment of death he becomes in his next life. If you think of your wife, you become a woman; if you think of God, you become liberated. What you think of is automatic, based upon how you lived your life. You have very little conscious control over the mind during this state. The intermediate state is a very dark state of ignorance, a deeper state of consciousness than even sleep and very hard to become lucid during. Therefore, one must practice during his life to constantly think of God by the chanting of his names, this is called Bhakti. By keeping God in mind constantly, there is no question being reborn again as his liberation is guaranteed.

>>3227322
True, I forgot about Egypt. I think there were comparissons with the tibetan text

>>3227356
Interesting, thanks. IIRC some tibetan traditions also took this idea that you are reborn in the exact thing you think about when you die (or I remember reading something similar).

>>3227230
Well the French Monarchy was evil also since they didn't give a shit about their citizens being poor.

There is no good or bad guy in history.

>>3227230
>t. hapsburg

Better him than fucking Hitler. He was actually a decent general. Maybe even better than Rommel!

A question I have for someone for knowledge, was French patriotism a at a high with him in charge? Or did the French people dislike him as he was an usurper?

isn't there an app that helps with that?

>>3227120
Good list/resources here bro: triviumeducation.com

>>3227116
Compared to ten years ago, both are on the rise in many Western countries. I don't see Hitler or Lenin popping up anytime soon, but it is a reach to say both are fully dead. It makes sense they would gain some popularity, as the younger generations that never witnessed them in person are relatively distant to the Cold War and especially WW2 compared to their parents and grandparents. As history moves on, the emotional attachments to past events wither away and people start to reform old ideas they think can be better this time around.

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>>3227116
China and Vietnam are pretty much Marxist in name only. They're not totally free market but they've drifted in that direction over the past few decades. Don't know much about Laos or Cuba.

>>3227258
>both are on the rise in many Western countries.
Only if you consider leftism as a subculture rather than a coherent ideology, and even that's debatable. The old fashioned communists, who have overthrowing the capitalist class as a first priority and can actually tell you the difference between ML and Trotskyism, are all but extinct. Meanwhile, thanks to over a century of constantly moving goalposts, there are still plenty of people who call themselves "Marxists" or "communists" but have completely detached ideas of what those words mean. Many of them have no idea what surplus labor or dialectical materialism are.

>>3227421
Laos is like China also, in that a communist party runs the country but doesn't practice communist ideology and is mostly a capitalist society