>mfw someone implies social changes like woman's equality,

>>2544955
Pretty sure there were many morally guided anti-slave sentiments in the U.S. and Europe.

>woman's equality
Why was this considered inefficient?

>>2544955
How do you explain the sudden change of women's rights in the USSR almost immediately after the regime change? It obviously came about because the people wanted it to

>>2544961
Women's equality only became a big deal because capitalists realized they could double the labor pool of wagecucks

>>2544961
Morally guided because of a difference in the economic viability of slavery in different regions and people's inability to parse the fact that morality is regional and different economic situations necessitate different social structure. The economic divide between slave states and non slave states was great enough to create a great moral schism.

Keeping women unequal was inefficient thanks to the advent of the industrial era wherein the physical deficiency of women became less relevant thanks to the changing nature of labor and the reduced rate of infant mortality allowed women to operate on a similar plane as men. It was more efficient to allow this to be reflected politically than it was to restrict the freedom of a large amount of potential labor that would function better unrestricted.
>>2544965
Moral shifts are not spontaneous, they occur in response to opportunities almost always borne on technology advancements, a long standing regime values keeping things stable and goes for a a slow shift to accomadate this change to avoid undermining itself, while a new regime immediately attempts to codify these changes to legitimize itself and earn the goodwill of the people.

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>mfw someone implies that any social change is the result one factor alone
god, your time is so lazy it hurts

>>2544996
>time
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>>2544996
It is always the end result of economic changes, the activism phase is merely the vocalization of that change.

>>2545002
stop being lazy

>>2545007
Please give me an example when economic change was not the primary moving factor allowing social change to take place and successfully stick

>>2545011
nothing I say would satisfy you because you're just assuming everything is caused by economic change from the start. you're like one of those older evolutionary biologists that just assumed everything served an adaptive purpose without actually studying it. just coming up with some story for how economic changes could have caused it like how they came up with some story of how everything might have been adaptive in the past. at least those biologists realized how foolish they were being and started to study things with more nuance instead of treating life as it were simple enough to understand with one tool.