"The pagans of the real Roman Empire were nothing if not respectable. It is said that when Christ was born the cry went through the world that Pan was dead. The truth is that when Christ was born Pan for the first time began to stir in his grave. The pagan gods had become pure fables when Christianity gave them a new lease of life as devils. I venture to wager that if you found one man in such a society who seriously believed in the personal existence of Apollo, he was probably a Christian."

In other words paganism was spiritualist rather than religious until Christianity forced it to double down as a reactionary measure and really become a religion.

Kind of like the Taoist conception of Heaven as a "god" even though a Christian wouldn't recognize it conceptually as such.

This flexibility and belief in universality is why the Romans were able to syncretize almost every religion they encountered into their pantheon.

Because they were all seen as legitimate manifestations of the animus of the world.

Also the reason they were so hostile to Jews and Christians.

@εïз irma εïз Hitler wasnt a socialist, but he wasnt a free market absolutist either

No, but Nazi Germany was very much a private enterprise-driven economy with a high degree of business freedom.

And hardly a mega nanny state like people want to say it was.

He privatized everything in peace time

Social program expenditures were lower than America today.

It was Goering and especially Speer who mobilized industry for the war effort.

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But even then businesses were on the most part left alone.

Only businesses pertinent to the war were affected.

hitler was you middle man

your

he gases half the jews

and he affects half industry

was the holocaust exaggerated

He was the opposite of a middle man. That was what he ran on, being absolute and unwilling to compromise.

yes i think only 2 million died

not 6 gorillian

Wasnt the term "late stage capitalism" coined by a national socialist?

Grug think big nose grug lie about holobunga

No I'm pretty sure that was invented by Stalinists to justify them losing Germany and Italy to fascists.

But I'm like 25% sure.

Capitalism in decay was certainly used to justify that.

Stalin left the socialists in Germany out to dry because he said that Germany would collapse after they oppressed the proletariat under industrialists' watch.

But that was really just a parting shot.

well he left them because the ussr failed to conquer poland but lets not talk about that

"The term "late capitalism" was first used by Werner Sombart in his 1902 magnum opus Der Moderne Kapitalismus; Sombart divided capitalism into three stages: early capitalism; high capitalism, the heyday of capitalism; and late capitalism."

Never heard of this dude.

But he reflects Marx on this.

He's just categorizing it. Not original to him.

Just interesting that he coined the term

@.·Big Chungus·. Welcome

Hello.

🅱elcome

I'm gonna check this place out. If I like it, I'll _attempt to_ make you all a banner, alright?

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