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Unless you're religious then it obviously is morally acceptable.

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>>575563
why is that obvious? are you suggesting that only religious people have moral objections to things? or is that only true for suicide in particular?

>>575582
Try telling us why is suicide morally unacceptable according to you.

in these regions the bananas grow abundant

the bushman can simply pick up the banana and dont think about tomorrow he has no natural enemies and only eats the bananas while white man is battlign the frost inventing the wheel + aryan technology

white superiorty in my opinion desu

>>575527
>geographic determinism.

Go read Wallerstein on world systems

Warm climate favors the development of life.
In a single Brazilian tree, you will find more insect species than you can have in all of Europe. In warm climate, resources are plentiful and thus life is easy.
Cold climate is related to less life essential resources. It's simply harder to survive there.
Cold climate, therefore, favors the development of intelligence and other skills. You'll need to learn how to use tools, the envorinment and, more importantly, your mind, to survive.
So now we have a tropical area where there is no natural selection for smarter individuals.
In the colder areas, there's natural selection for smarter individuals.
Smarter people, more developed societies.
Dumber people, less developed socities.
That's how Europe and North Asia got more developed than Africa and South Asia by hundreds of years in difference in the first steps of civilization.
This, however, does not explain anything past anything circa 2000 or maybe 1000 before Christ. After that, it's just consequence of that initial natural selection for human genes.
Also it doesn't explain how the southern cone and south africa are just that better than the rest of africa and south america. Australia is also an exception.
That's because of colonization.

>>575329
Do you know what hermeneutics are? The difference between Althusser and EP Thompson on the nature of history? What Marxist class is? What "performance" of gender means?

Probably not. So you're below the basics.

Wallerstein on World systems theory
Kuhn / Lakatos on scientific revolutions
Needham on Chinese science
Unbound Prometheus on the industrial revolution
EP Thompson & Hammond and Hammond on the enclosures and production of class in the United Kingdom

>>575329
>military and ancient history
How to tell an autist from a mile away.

Start by majoring in history or just forget it.

>>575333
Thank you!

>>575311
No. There are a wide variety of respected philosophy journals that print continental articles.

It's a label that means little these days.

No.

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Puyi, he basically betrayed his nation to go rule over a puppet state established by their greatest rival

King George V, lost the largest empire ever.

>>575379
>King
>Emperor

>>574972
Not really, no.
Most leaders are charismatics, who either have a good track record for success, or the opposition has a track record of failure.

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>>574972

Is there something about autism that predisposes OPs towards faggotry?

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>>574972
>Rational
>Naturally do not care about conventional behaviour
>Do not need validation from other people
>Naturally callous

Autismos are more or less natural born leaders. Provided seizing power doesn't require being charming or nice.

>>574613
Leszek Kołakowski, Main Currents of Marxism takes you to 1968.

Steppe peoples

>>574613
annotated bibliography on marx no doubt has books on exactly what you want
http://pastebin.com/whsJ10F7

>>574095

>The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply and affect morale. Employment of this strategy implies that the side adopting this strategy believes time is on its side, but it may also be adopted when no feasible alternative strategy can be devised.

>>574106
This. While raiding and shit has doubtless existed since forever, Fabius was the first arguably to devise and implement the specific gears and goals of the tactic into a strategy.

>>574095

>When did it start?

Probably in prehistory.

>When and where did it consolidate into a coherent doctrine?

I would argue it still hasn't. You have a variance of different doctrines, which share some commonalities, but I can't think of a single fact, belief, or doctrine that is both necessary and sufficient to define a "guerilla war"?

>How is it related to other military developments like conscription, and to political developments like nationalism and democracy?

Less than you might think. At a rough commonality, a guerilla war generally tends to try to outlast the larger, stronger, conventional force, and raise the costs of its operation higher than the conventional polity is ready to bear. While technological and social changes have altered the cost calculations, that there are operational costs and limits have always remained and almost always will remain.

>What doctrine has proven to be effective in quelling it? Has there even been one?

More bodies, better policing tends to work the best, at least in modern contexts.

>>574106

Is a fabian strategy really guerilla war though? I mean, the namesake still sent out regular forces to oppose Hannibal, and while he didn't commit to decisive battles, he did essentially adopt a very Grecian style of operations, of move and fort and restrict enemy movements, as opposed to modern guerrilla warfare which ignores the enemy's movements altogether, attempting to strike at civilian infrastructure behind the army's back.

Please respond.

>>574058
Nebraska had no abolitionists or pro-slavery forces.
Just cows. Some corn, maybe. Lotta grass.

>>574655
Current Nebraskan here

Lots of corn and cows, definitely some grass. No slaves tho

In all actuality, Omaha had a pretty interesting history. Was a pretty violent town in its day.

>>574025
Study the Italian merchant republics, plus the effect trade and economics had on history and religion, plus vice versa.

>>574025
I don't consider things valuable solely in terms of whether they relate to my profession (or even me being interesting as a person). So no, I don't really have any dilemma in that regard.

>>574041
Me neither thats why I do it. Sometimes I think I might be wasting time but then I realize Its an eye opener in every way. But when Im in a job interview and make a little emphasis on my joy of reading, I know they think to themselves, "and why is this valuable to me?". So it brings a little down.

>>573615

No. What the French did was turn the American Revolution into something that could face the British army and win in classical, set-piece military engagements.

That is not strictly necessary for a revolution to win, and there is the distinct possibility that the Revolution could have continued in a real guerilla fashion even without French aid.

It would, however, almost certainly result in a very, very different American "character" for lack of a better word, post-revolution, and of course, there's not guarantee that it would have worked in that mode.

>>573644
>the Revolution could have continued in a real guerilla fashion
It never was a real guerilla fashion in the first place. American histories like to teach it like it was a war totally won through guerilla warfare , when in reality no war in history has been won like that. Those kinds of tactics are only to weaken the enemy for major engagements or strategic maneuvers, in which the more disciplined British force would still have the upper hand. Wars aren't fought in trees.

>>573644
This, it made it a lot cleaner.

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>>573501
>saging a firsthand source
>announcing sages
Bump.

>>573501
Bump because of this faggot.

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We automatically mounted the machine gun for action. Then like animals we burrowed into the earth as if trying to find protection deep in its bosom. Something struck my back where I carried my gas mask, but I did not pay attention to it. A steel splinter broke the handle of my spade and another knocked the remains out of my hand. I kept digging with my bare hands, ducking my head every time a shell exploded nearby. A boy to my side was hit in the arm and cried out for help. I crawled over to him, ripped the sleeves of his coat and shirt open and started to bind the bleeding part. The gas was so thick now I could hardly discern what I was doing. My eyes began to water and I felt as if I would choke. I reached for my gas mask, pulled it out of its container – then noticed to my horror that a splinter had gone through it leaving a large hole. I had seen death thousands of times, stared it in the face, but never experienced the fear I felt then. Immediately I reverted to the primitive. I felt like an animal cornered by hunters. With the instinct of self-preservations uppermost, my eyes fell on the boy whose arm I had bandaged. Somehow he had managed to put the gas mask on his face with his one good arm. I leapt at him and in the next moment had ripped the gas mask from his face. With a feeble gesture he tried to wrench it from my grasp; then fell back exhausted. The last thing I saw before putting on the mask were his pleading eyes. And that's how I achieved my first erection, a sense of power I hadn't felt again until I heard your pathetic excuse for a pitch. Which is why I'm going to offer you $10,000 for 70% and I get to conscript your sons and prostitute your daughters to the Turks.

>>573486
>Accusing anyone but the Americans, who actually did try world domination through nuclear threats, of world domination

>>573486

Probably not, or at least not going much further than wishful thinking about it.

The "West", i.e. U.S., UK, France, and other aligned countries had way more population and industrial weight behind them than the Soviets did. If nukes never existed, what you'd see is a much larger western military presence in Europe and other areas that they thought the USSR might try to muscle in on.

>>573486
The existence of nuclear bomb has nothing to do with the stalinist theory of "socialism in only one country", which has been formulated by Stalin in 1924. The orders of the Komintern to its sections outside of USSR always aimed since Stalin took power to deter revolutionnary impulses around the world.

Yeah.

That's why the Freemasons targeted those cities specifically.

Satan hates Christianity.

>>573325
Yes. Delete this shitty thread.

>>573328
You can say they holocausted them.

>>573273
if I had a cool looking gift like that I'd just put it on a shelf where it can be seen tbqh.

>>573273
have an Ottoman bayonet from WW1 supposedly used in the Siege of Kut. keep in in its original condition in display shelf.

>>573273
"whatever it takes" is kind of a corny motto