Miring my civilization sissy roman?
*influences everything forever*
Even Alexander paid homage
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Where do Hellenistic elements of Rome end and actual Roman culture begin?
Was he a leftist?
Not in Marxian terms, but in Enlightenment terms, yes.
I believe he actually did sit on the left side in the french parliament during his ambassorship
Define "leftist"
How close were the Soviets to collapse in June 1942?
I've heard that David Glantz argued they were close to exhaustion.
>>1371183
Glantz doesn't argue that in his book on Barbarossa, in fact he ends by noting that the Soviets became a fuckton stronger by the end of Barbarossa thanks to actually having experience and weeding out shitty pre-war ideas.
>>1371201
I asked about June 1942, i.e. after second Kharkov.
>>1371208
What makes you think the Soviets were better off immediately after Barbarossa than later? Oh right, you are a moron.
Why is there literally NOTHING to know pre-Rurik about the eastern-slavic tribes? Where the Romans really that limited to reach those areas in order to study them? And even during the Rurikovich dynasty, why is the Primary Chronicle the only source for most shit happening back then? It's ridiculous.
>>1371003
It's the realm of archaeology, no?
because nobody cared about them as long as they staid where they were and didn't bother anyone.
>>1371015
Except they did bother everyone around them (talking mainly about Kievan Rus') including Byzantium.
is the study of the occult better than traditional western philosophy for self-improvement and insight on the true nature of the man? or is it just a shortcut for gullible people? or is is pretty much the same thing, just more metaphisical/hybridized with eastern philosohpy?
(by occult i mean authors like manly p hall, crowley and r.b. wilson)
You seek knowledge for the wrong reasons.
A shortcut? Oh dear. No, you need to read Western philosophy, or at the very least Greek philosophy from Presocratic up to Neoplatonist, and the Bible BEFORE you get into the occult. And you can't just dive into Hall or Crowley without having read the main Hermetic, Kabbalistic or Gnostic texts. Really, you should also have read all the standard Eastern stuff too (Tao Te Ching, Upanishads, Bardo Thodol and the rest). The occult is very alluring and interesting but any study of it without the background will lead to shallow knowledge. It's not an alternative or shortcut to philosophy, it's the next step.
>>1370758
The line between philosophy and the occult is entirely illusory. You can't study either of them fully without involving the other as well.
Why were the Japanese so cruel in wars?
Because the Japanese nation were cruel ages ago and it haven't changed to this day. By being brutal you intimidate your enemies :-)
>>1370459
They have very small penises and as such are incredibly prone to her outbursts. That's why they killed those people in SEA.
>>1370459
Brutal training regimen designed to obliterate individuality and establish a master-slave relationship between officers and soldiers.
Years of indoctrination that the enemy is subhuman, and that death is easy so one should not fear it.
Did Stalin actually care about his people, or Communism, or was he just a sociopathic bastard?
Lmao no dictator gave a flying fuck about his people.
He was mad and destroyed many chances for humanity to progress, still today as he's used by the capitalist for discrediting marxism..
>>1370319
Sociopath who didn't care for the Russian people.
Would WW2 still happen if the KPD had won in 1932?
>>1369776
Probably. It just would've meant a COMINTERN vs. Allies war rather than a Soviet Union vs. Axis vs. Allies war.
>>1369776
Id imagine Poland would do some kind of preemptive strike on Berlin in that case.
Nobody wants a 2 front war
France could have invaded them as reprisal for breaking any treaty. They should have been more interest in suppressing a Communist Germany, due to the risk of them supporting communists abroad.
If that happened, we can never know what reaction the Soviet Union would have had.
Why has A E S T H E T I C I S M become a thing in modern times?
What does it entail, is it a rejection of capitalism and mass-production? I don't really get it.
Pretentious libarts majors at McDonalds think what they find visually attractive is the most important part of society
>>1369531
Aside from the universal vulgarity of the mid-20th century, aestheticism has always been a thing.
>>1369531
Aesthetes are homosexuals. It derives from the very nature of aestheticism.
1980s were the shittiest decade aesthetically for the west.
Fact.
>>1369464
Certainly for clothing style, but the 80's had some excellent car designs and technology design was done with this sort of this "fearlessness for the future" that the 90's killed.
For the most good-looking era, I'd go 20's. Art DECO not safety RATINGS ok
>>1369464
OP wouldn't know aesthetic if it crawled up his ass
>>1369590
1930s are even better IMHO. Early Modernism was incredibly awesome.
Part 1:
Can we talk about European jews?
I am half ashkenazi Jew but unfortunately i dont know that much about jewish history.
In general I know this:
1)Jews emerged as a people in the levant and created a country(that later split) roughly where israel is now.
2)They were massacred/got their asses kicked by romans as a result of several jewish revolts which drastically reduced jewish population throughout the roman empire(several million jews died overall).
3)The result of the jewish wars was a clearer split between judiasm and early christians.
4)as a result of the temple getting destroyed rabbinical judiasm gained strength.
5)some jews through different immigration patters eventually ended up in different parts of europe.
6)some jews because they were not muslim or christian traded between christendom and muslim states.
7)Jews were kicked out of different countries and massacred throughout europe.
8)With secularization Jews started slowly assimilating but were eventually genocided as a result of of of pseudo scientific racial theories adopted by Hitler's populist movement.
Now, as i see it the split between Judaism and Christianity created a dynamic of animosity and mistrust between the two groups and jews being a small minority suffered whenever exclusionist ideas won out or when different elite groups in christian countries thought it was in their favor to damage or expel jews.
Jews on the other hand bunched up in their own small communities and tried to better their own and had a narrower tribal perspective since a larger identity was not possible both internally and externally.
What I find interesting is that Christianity worships jesus who was a jew and sacrificed himself for the sins of others and distanced himself while creating his own community.
The christian jewish dynamic in europe is in many ways similar with jews being used as scapegoats during tribulations, used as a means of achieving social harmony and resolving inner tensions in nations.
>>1369444
Part 2:
Now what I want to know is what were the actual bad things European jews did?
Yes they were usurers because they were not allowed to own land or take up certain vocations and also because they were only forbidden from giving interest loans to other jews but not to non jews but were there cases of serious betrayed by jewish communities?
How come so many jews are rich? For example as the soviet union was dismantled a lot of very rich jews emerged and they make up a huge % of russia's richest now.
Why is it so? Sure you can say that because of the way jews are (genetically or culturally) they are more intelligent but why does that mean they are so overwhelmingly rich? Why not great artists for example?
everyone needs a scapegoat
>>1369444
>half ashkenazi Jew
No. If your mother is a Jew, you are 100% Jewish. If she isn't you are 0% Jewish.
How accurate the speech from the movie is compare to the real Patton ?
Also, was he an extremist or his views was shared by everyone, just not voiced that way ?
>>1368623
It is approximate. It is based on notes of other people and not a verbatim transcript.
>extremist
He believed in reincarnation.
>>1368623
Patton was an extremist for the most part. His idea to invade the USSR was (thankfully) dismissed by most Allied commanders, but some agreed. Churchill was one such example, though he wasn't anywhere near as eager as Patton.
>>1368623
Pretty accurate. Pattons IRL voice was higher in pitch.
What was the chief reason the soviets got blown the fuck out on such a monumental scale when they attacked Finland in 1939?
>>1368337
Poor leadership
>>1368337
Snipers and guerilla warfare against a convencional army.
>>1368341
forgot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä
>American "conservatism" is about classical liberalism and defending enlightenment ideals
what in the fuck happened there
"classical liberalism" is fucking retarded
>plant some vegetables
>not only the vegetables, but the entire plot of land they were on belongs to me now
>not even because other people recognise it, but by IMMUTABLE NATURAL LAW
Why would it be anything else in a country founded upon those principles.
>>1368116
Those are the ideals they are trying to conserve
Hey /his/
Halfway through this book. Wondering if anyone has any more suggestions for good broad range history non-fiction books. Things that cover a wide range of history, not just specifically a certain event or something. Interested in learning more about the age of exploration, imperialism and colonization.
Before this I read "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari and really enjoyed that.
>>1367202
If you like that book you could read collapse by the same author.
>>1367202
/his/ hates GGS, so beware of that.
As for recommendations, this might be more specific than you would like, but The Great Divergence by Ken Pomeranz should interest you. It covers why Europe pulled so far ahead of the rest of the world in the 19th Century, so it's very involved in imperialism and colonialism and isn't limited to one region or event. It's not quite as sweeping as GGS, but its still fairly broad.
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