Is there a /his/ wiki or resource page of recommended reading? Any infographics?
>>1422390
I'm sure we could put one together if there isn't, I'll start
>>1422390
Europe - Norman Davies
>>1422876
Another good one
What do the critiquers mean when they talk about the failure of social democracy? I think Zizek has said this and when I looked at the guardian recently it mentioned a labour (the more left wing of the two big parties and not in power) leadership candidate offering "reheated social democracy" or some other disparaging term that implied something fundamentally cannot work.
What's wrong with the idea that the UK or USA can just offer slightly more out of work benefits and also some more infrastructure spending and then society will be fine? Is this just the critiquers / journalists pretending that everything is awful?
>media is controlled by multinational corporations
>media promotes ideas that are good for multinational corporations
How can anyone say that democracy has failed when the only democratic country on this whole fucking planet is Switzerland?
EVeryone else is a sample of democracy. At best.
>>1422230
Their democracy is tightly controlled though, they generally don't allow leeching immigrants in plus their whites aren't cucked leftist faggots that demand free shit and high taxes
How the South was able to introduce the Jim Crom? Why did the federal government do nothing?
>>1422039
Jim Crow didn't even exist in the form of actual laws, it was a social construct.
>>1422039
Because blacks weren't seen as people.
>>1422043
>Those who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually their innermost desire is for an end to the “free for all.” They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.
t. Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer"
How true is this statement, historically?
Fanatics and zealots absolutely never clamor for "freedom" though.
>>1422014
>The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints
t. Every single neofreudian pop-psychology explanation for everything ever
"dude you're just insecure about your own shortcomings xD"
When will this meme fucking die?
>>1422014
It sounds like bullshit.
If there were no roman jewish wars could Judaism have become the official Roman religion?
Also, how many jews were living in the roman empire right before the roman jewish wars and how many non jewish?
How do you think the roman empire would have been different If It became jewish and not Christian? but remember, Judiams was very different back then.
>>1422013
Nah, Judaism doesn't make an effort to convert people.
>>1422046
Elaborate. Did he invite jews to tell him about judaism?
>Peace
>Land
>Bread
How did this guy get away with these lies? He promised all of the above and didn't deliver on any of it.
Hahaha the absolute madman.
>>1421931
>didn't deliver any of it
How so?
>>1421957
>brutal civil war
>forced collectivization
>mass famine and starvation
You drive into a rural township, there are townies and farmers and small businessmen. Are they peasants?
And I don't mean peasant in a derogatory sense.
>>1421857
You're not a peasant if you own land. But really we're not living in a feudal system so the distinction is meaningless.
>>1421857
Lot's of things defined one's class such as clothing, lineage, occupation and property. what exactly made someone a "peasant" could differ in different cultures.
>>1421978
essentially this. Although heir were exceptions for people such as caravan merchants and some members of the royal palace. In the same sense, you could own a parsle of land on the very edge of a city state making just enough to get by and still be considered a peasant.
>townies
Please elaborate on this.
>farmers
As in farm owners, or field hands and the like?
>small businessmen
Usually this is a trial-by-trial basis sort of thing, but generally, business owners are middle-class
Did japanese medieval peasantry really have no personal names? Or did I get meme'd by Shogun
I can't tell if James Clavell was grossly misrepresenting the culture or not
>>1421772
From what I know landless bondsmen did not have a surname. landowners, samurai or not would have had one
They had no family names and retarded personal names that essentially meant "Son n°1", "Son n°2" etc while the aristocrats had poetic and elaborate naming schemes much like in China.
Do Arab Muslims today still hate black people?
If they came to America, would they form an Arab KKK?
Muslims who come here ((Sweden)) throw black people off bridges so they probably would.
>>1421543
Your screenshot has mainly Persians.
>>1421555
Avicenna and al-Tusi are Persian, the rest are Arab.
tell me about maghreb's history
they wuz kings
then soldiers conquering iberian peninsula
then scholars
then corsairs
then colonised
then corrupt oil merchants
the end
>>1421729
Don't forget 1.5 million dead Algerians
Is it possible to sustain yourself as a philosopher? If I go to study philosophy How do i sustain myself?
Please no "go study something else" comments.
Write
Major for money, minor for love.
If you're really talented, or Asian, double major.
>>1421441
Write what? What sort of jobs can i get as a philosophy graduate?
Why is this board so anti slavic? All I always read is slavshit this, slavshit that and the only justification so far is muh Russia as if it was the only slav country or as if Russians chose to be sent to gulags by Stalin.
Wouldn't surprise me if most of the anti slav hate that don't specifically get aimed against slavs coke from other slavs desu.
Because they're a cancer on humanity.
>anti-slav
If anything it is anti-German.
How did it come from this?
>>1421399
... to this
Sorry but The 20th century was unique in its utter rejection of Religion. Religion is coming back strong and reforming Islam to be peacful is up to muslims themsleves unfortunately.
We must instead of being fedoar fags reintegrate Christianity on a state level again but this time with all our academic knowledge.
We have to take religion seriously and through the government make sure critical and self critical knowledge of it is dissaminated through our society. Religion has a power to unite and make us feel part of a long lineage of people and ideas and myths.
Because Turkey isn't as successful as it initially was and now people turn to faith to feel better about themselves.
Why didn't they just network or get an internship?
>>1421087
They didn't know how to look a man in the eye and give a firm handshake, clearly
>>1421087
Reminder that there are greek people, right now, working without pay so they can keep their job in the hope that the company will become more profitable someday
>>1421128
That's fair, they've been not working with pay for long enough
Is this book any good? I hear that the author is a pretty famous medievalist.
I prefer this one.
Woods isn't a bad historian when he stays purely within the realm of history but has a habit of letting his political views infect his writings sometimes.
Well the name is objectively wrong