The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article from Ramin Mazaheri.  This is the last in a series.  You can find the previous articles through the following links... The Ukrainian suicide: Reading Emmanuel Todd’s French-only 'The Defeat of the West' Eastern Europe’s pro-West shift is ‘inauthentic’ - Emmanuel Todd’s ‘The Defeat of the West’ Emmanuel Todd asks ‘What is the West?’ Protestants and professors won't like his answer The ‘EU-icide’: Emmanuel Todd asks if it’s suicide or homicide? Emmanuel Todd on the UK’s Russophobia: a crumbling nation needs a scapegoat Emmanuel Todd beats Democrats by 6 months: The US is an oligarchy ‘The Defeat of the West’ necessarily includes done and dusted failures in the US Emmanuel Todd has hard, obvious truths for why the US is leading Ukraine to ruin Ramin Mazaheri (This is the 7th part in a multipart series on Emmanuel Todd’s political it-book of the moment  The Defeat of the West (La Defaite de l’Occ...

  Beyond a naive economics to a political economy of how things actually are Violence has been the basis of our economy for 500 years TOBY ROGERS MAY 19, 2024   It seems to me that we’ve been doing political economy wrong for the last two hundred and fifty years. Any honest political economy of how things actually are would start by focusing on the following aspects of society: 1. The disproportionate impact of violence . A single bullet changes the course of history for hundreds of years, dynamite can move mountains, and now a single bomb can erase a city. 2. The willingness to use violence . This is a small subset of the population. 3. The ability to organize people to commit violence on a mass scale through the use of persuasion, fear, and legitimation.   This is an even smaller subset of the population. 4. The stuff that you can get with the mastery of 1, 2, and 3   — oil fields that power the world economy, literal gold (silver, copper, platinum, and cobalt) min...