The big question:
Why did Europe not suffer a wave of worker's revolutions, as Marx predicted?
>>533970
Historian Robert Paxton observes that on the European continent the provisions of the welfare state were originally enacted by conservatives in the late nineteenth century and by fascists in the twentieth in order to distract workers from unions and socialism, and were opposed by leftists and radicals. He recalls that the German welfare state was set up in the 1880s by Chancellor Bismarck, who had just closed 45 newspapers and passed laws banning the German Socialist Party and other meetings by trade unionists and socialists.[17] A similar version was set up by Count Eduard von Taaffe in the Austro-Hungarian Empire a few years later. "All the modern twentieth-century European dictatorships of the right, both fascist and authoritarian, were welfare states", he writes. "They all provided medical care, pensions, affordable housing, and mass transport as a matter of course, in order to maintain productivity, national unity, and social peace."
"Continental European Marxists opposed piecemeal welfare measures as likely to dilute worker militancy without changing anything fundamental about the distribution of wealth and power. It was only after World War II, when they abandoned Marxism (in 1959 in West Germany, for example), that continental European socialist parties and unions fully accepted the welfare state as their ultimate goal."[19]
Successful implementation of Social Democracy in European countries.
Christianity and traditional values. That's why Cultural Marxism was invented to get rid of it.
What is taught about American history in UK schools?
Wherever the US ministry of international propaganda dictates.
>>531921
We learn about the Great Whining as a minor side note to why we celebrate Good Riddance Day.
>>531921
literally nothing, and I mean literally nothing.
How would history have played out if spartacus had won?
WE WUZ GREEKS N ROMANS BRO
>>529414
Probably people would think more of the kickass 1960 Kubrick film than the retarded faggot show when they hear the name "Spartacus".
>>529414
He did win
All he wanted to do was go home
And they almost got there but most of the army was addicted to looting so they turned back
If they had carried on they would have disappeared into the wastes of history ie northern europe
So i watched the series Spartacus and they included Marcus Licinius Crassus. They litteraly quoted "The man pisses wine and shits gold".
I was wondering how he got all his wealth and what /his/ opinion is about him
He just owned a fuckton of land. Probably from a few generations of successful conquest and importing a lot of slaves under his family. I feel kind of bad for him. He was the richest man in Rome and died in the pursuit of the one thing he didn't have and desired most.
>>528859
Well he did inherit 7 million sesterces from his father. But making that into what is today 2 trillion $ is quite impressive. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_figures
Probably stock raising.
t. Cato
*freeze frame*
>WOAH
>So you're probably wondering how I got here
It all started five years ago ...
>>525812
But which insipid commercial US punk band would play the opening music?
>>525812
>Where is Lucius Vorenus? That fucker was supposed to be my meat shield.
ITT: underrated historical leaders
Who is your favorite Roman Emperor? Mine has to be Domitian, fuck the Senate.
Marcus Aurelius
/thread
DYK that the Emperors had an imperial cult? And that anyone who didn't worship the emperor as a god would be put to death?
What is this, North Korea? Talk about hubris...
>>520053
I don't know desu Augustus started the empire but Mehmed II made constantinople great again.
Are there any contemporary conservative philosophers who are not neocon sellouts? I'll also take any person from the post-WW2 20th century.
>pic related
And yes, this is /his/ related. It's about philosophy.
>>518021
Who is that in the picture?
>>518021
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/#ModConSidOakScr
However I haven't personally not read any of them since what's considered conservaive differs from country to country for obvious reason, even if they may share some ideas such as the precautionary principle.
>>518021
Aristotle is right wing kinda actually
Try Stefan Molyneux OP, he's on YouTube
Boy I'm gonna receive a lot of shit from this leftist cesspool board
What evidence is there to prove Jesus was mortal?
>>540740
He died.
>implying the burden of proof isn't on the one who makes claims that wildly deviate from what we know
We had a thread a few days ago, and there were actually some pretty interesting things posted in it. Let's see if we can get some more.
> Liberia
> Never colonized
American whitewashing, everyone.
>>536378
Did the French just decide to abandon most of their African holdings in 1960?
>>536383
More like blackwashing.
>It was colonized by African-Americans so it doesn't count!
>mongols couldnt expand into south east asia
why is this?
>>534654
Jungles, son. Steppe horsemen hate jungles.
>>534654
steppe niggers who cannot into jungle guerrilla warfare
Is music language? In a philosophical, Wittgenstein, Chomsky sense?
>>534199
it can be used as language
but in itself, it is only language as much as sounds that come from the human mouth or etchings on paper are.
>>534199
Only when it has good lyrics (^:
>>534229
>sounds that come from the human mouth or etchings on paper are
Why not sounds from an instrument?
Or to put it another way, is Bach a philosopher?
Where did the Afro-Asiatic languages originate? How did it end up spanning from ancient Middle Eastern civilizations to tribes in West Africa?
>tribes
>>533457
Originated in Africa, obviously.
>How did it end up spanning from ancient Middle Eastern civilizations to tribes in West Africa?
Africans migrated east and in turn took their language with them, would be my best guess.
Why do people dress so badly now?
>>531847
because this shit is too much work and impractical. if you don't work in an office you'd only be inconvenienced having to wear a suit everywhere
Because wearing a suit every day is a pain in the arse
Herodotus or Thucydides?
>inb4 both
Herodotus. He merely lists what he has heard and allows people to judge if it's bullshit or not. Thucydides just tells you the narrative that he believes is closest truth, and rarely brings up secondary accounts while telling his histories.
>>539522
Thucydides is more like a modern historian than Herodotus, though.
>>539531
>twists facts in to supporting his own narrow perspective of events
sure is
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