Can we have a thread about Eastern Europe? Why is it in the state it's in? What type of culture does it have now vs what it had a few hundred years ago?
I'm half slav but know very little about my ancestry and want to know what /his/ thinks
literally communism
and no we can't guess what would happened if there wasn't communism except that everything would be better
Unfortunately, they endured decades of terrible communist regimes.
that map is not up to date.
t.vatnik
What went right/wrong during the last 100 years in the Middle East?
>>1033047
Nothing. The world is not composed morally (Hume, Nietzsche) and no moral position can be established to the satisfaction of others (Kierkegaard). Moreover, History as a discipline confutes the moralising of historiography (Ranke, Thompson).
Fuck off cuntface.
>>1033064
Nice. I can use this as copypasta to annoy everyone.
>>1033047
The failure to properly modernize the economy led to a rise of fundementalism in Islam. People who live good lives areally much less likely to blow themselves up.
Can /his/ give me some essential pseudohistory bullshit? I wanna have a good chuckle.
Pic related, the king of pseudohistory.
>>1027879
>2016
>not believing in the ancient astronaut theory
I'm blanking on the name, who is that Russian guy who thinks that human written history is only like 1500 years old, and written records prior to that are all bullshit?
>>1027939
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Fomenko
![second_bill_of_rights_cropped_81[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZNtYE6Y.jpg "second bill of rights cropped 81[1]")
Why didn't we get this, /his/? Is such a thing even possible?
The key points:
>The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation
>The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation
>The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living
>The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad
>The right of every family to a decent home
>The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health
>The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment
>The right to a good education.
>>1027345
put bluntly,because socialism does not work.
>>1027345
>The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation
>remunerative
Yeah, good luck getting stuff like cleaners with that attitude.
>>1027345
I don't think he was actually proposing adding those as new amendments, but used it as a vision for what the US should be working towards.
Even the most stubborn New Deal Liberal would know that those vague amendments would be retarded.
I'm a chan master ask me anything.
Most of you probably know japanese zen, which has it's roots in chinese chan.
Founded by Bodhidharma, followed by the 5 patriarchs, followed by a multitude of masters.
A special transmission outside the scriptures, not dependent on words and letters. Directly pointing to our mind, seeing our nature and becoming enlightened.
I'm well read in chan literature, not so well in buddhist sutras.
Ask me anything really, I can answer from my experience, but I can also quote the masters on any given topic (related to chan) if you want.
Do you ever beat your students?
What are the differences between the average Western practicioner and the average Chinese practicioners?
Which Chan school do you follow?
What is the Buddha?
To clear some common misconceptions:
1. Chan is not buddhism. It is often misleadingly called zen buddhism.
2. Chan is not about meditation. Those guys you see meditating 8hrs a day are buddhists.
3. Meditation is mostly unrelated to enlightenment
>>1035899
Fellow Buddhist here, although following Theravada teachings.
What kind of meditation technique do you practice? Did you reach any jhanas?
What exactly are the 'means of production'?
Some marxists tell me capital and natural capital are, sometimes they're just factories and resources and shit.
So how do you give that to the working class? What does that mean? That every person on earth owns the land? Why couldn't someone just knock down your house and build one of their own? Or if I'm a member of the working class, why can't I decide to do with the resources myself? If I build a factory does everyone else just take it away?
Seems like way too big of an oversight. What the fuck was Marx thinking?
>>1032883
>Seems like way too big of an oversight. What the fuck was Marx thinking?
your post has a few glaring oversights. three of them, in fact.
>>1032893
Why should I care about three oversize containers of toilet paper.
:^)
>>1032893
I've only been reading the communist manifesto. I'll check these out, are they good?
If Hell eternal? If so, why is punishment infinite for finite transgressions?
Why does God command us to turn the other cheek but never seems to take transgressions against himself so lightly?
The most common response I've seen is that for sinning against an infinite entity you get infinite time. The reasoning seems watery but I can't nail down exactly why.
>>1032303
Because the governments and elders needed to scare the people into submission. If an eternal hell is real, I don't think anyone deserves it. Not Genghis Khan, not Stalin, not Mao.
>>1032312
God made you eternal, can't take that away.
You choose to avoid heaven, order has to be maintained for ensure happiness of all beings.
You won't cease to exist, you'll just live outside of God influence because you wanted so.
Give me credible scenarios in which WW2 has been avoided.
French and UK don't pussy out when Hitler comes to power.
RN blockades German coast, French send troops to Rhineland.
Hitler is cucked.
>>1024339
hitler stops after austria
hitler stops after sudetenland
hitler backs off from poland
i don't tend to overstate the role of one man in history but he was pushing and shoving the whole way
>tfw your history teacher tells your class war movies and grand strategy games have "militarized" your minds
>tfw your history teacher tells you that military history or war history isn't going to be taught in the class so the class can be "demilitarized" by the time they leave
>tfw your history teacher uses the words "plugging the school to militarization pipeline" describing her class
>>1032968
History without wars is boring
>tfw your college prof tries to convince the class that the space program was faked by a Jewish conspiracy
Well, you better tell her that microhistory ain't got shit on positivistic history and that she better starts teaching you about great persons and great events before you delve into historicism.
Everyone knows about ancient Greek sculpture, medieval Chinese painting, Gothic architecture, Islamic miniatures, Classical orchestra, etc.
How about a thread about lesser known or underappreciated cultural accomplishments? Art, architecture, music, literature, poetry, or whatever you're into is fine, so long as it isn't well known.
Classical Indian painting, between before 100 BC and 1200 AD is pretty underrated in my opinion. When people think of Indian painting today, they usually think of early modern stuff like this (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Patta_Chitra_02.jpg) or of Islamic Mughal miniatures. The early stuff, which I think is much more impressive, tends to be ignored, probably because so little of it survives; most examples are from the Ajanta caves, and most of the rest are only fragmentary. I'll post some examples.
Pic related is from Ajanta, from around 500 AD.
why is every country obsessed with having boring tricolor flags? why are we no longer seeing any kind of symbols except simple suns or crescent moon?
>>1020383
Blame the Dutch and French
>>1020383
Literally Democracy and Nationalism.
These two were all about pandering to the plebs. Therefore Flags have to be dumbed down so they can remember and replicate it better.
Meaning no heraldic devices for as much as possible.
Logoification basically.
I hate the ROI flag so much, such a shit flag. I know a few Englishmen who hate the Unionjack as well, its odd.
>"If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists"
What did the greatest economist of all time, Friedrich Hayek, mean by this? Can anyone explain?
>>1026181
because Adolf Hitler proved him wrong before the elite went gunning for germany because they were loosing jew bux
go ahead ban me i don't care jewmod
>economist
>great
lmao
That's a weird way to spell Keynes.
What can you tell me in depth about the Tocharian culture of Xinjiang? Other than they were an Indo European Culture which happened to live in what is modern day western China and followed Buddhism?
I've always been intrigued by them, how much do we have on their people and culture? I know we have some of their poems and texts and that they had their own particular script, but just how much we know about them? Their way of life, their state organisation, their kingdoms, their architecture, what life in their society looked like.
I'd like some serious answers, no autism please, i know this is 4chan, but for once, just once, i'd like to have a serious, meaningful discussion about a historical topic that is actually, quite interesting.
>>1011557
They are an interesting bunch, I reckon they more than likely settled in the Turfan area and then later on may have been proto Kushans.
>>1011610
Yeah i heard about Kanishka the king of the Kushans probably being of Tocharian stock, plus they were from what i gather, instrumental to the spread of Buddhism in China. I just wish we knew more about what their culture and their cities looked like, their day to day life, their manner of dress, their customs, it seems altogether all so fascinated yet so shrouded in mystery.
It's not like all their cities were destroyed.
The Uyghur turks invaded and intermarried with a lot of the local population in the Turfan Depression
Why is politics so convoluted? Why isn't there a book stating exactly what Marxists truly want and why, without all the jargon and abstract bullshit?
This is what I understand so far. I know it is probably retarded but help me out.
>Marxists hate Liberal Democracy. I guess because muh capitalism and muh neo-imperialism.
>If Liberal Democracy collapsed now or generations before us the west would revert to some sort of capitalist hierarchy (Fascism, Monarchy whatever)
>Marxists empower and awaken groups to their identity/oppression under Liberal Democracy. (Feminism, BLM, gays, trannies)
>A culture so awakened creates the conditions that led the French to revolt in the French Revolution. Thereby making fascism or any other type of authoritarianism impossible if Liberal Democracy collapsed.
>This is in the hopes of humanity arising into some sort of cooperative socialism at the end of Liberal Democracy.
pic only sort-of related btw
>marxism
>relevant in modern politics
>>1034767
Are you aware of how many journals and organizations are Marxists think tanks in modern universities?
When were duels banned in the west, and why?
Bonus question: do you think they should be re-introduced? Explain the answer from a moral standpoint.
>>1033974
>When were duels banned in the west, and why?
Because it was bad idea to have your elites decimated because duels for every petty argument were fashionable at the time.
>>1033974
>for every petty argument were fashionable at the time.
for settling every...*
Interesting homework assignment desu.
When's it due?
