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Not too familiar with the roman systems, but here’s a relevant text from a wikipedia article on capitalism:

The economic foundations of the feudal agricultural system began to shift substantially in 16th-century England as the manorial system had broken down and land began to become concentrated in the hands of fewer landlords with increasingly large estates. Instead of a serf-based system of labor, workers were increasingly employed as part of a broader and expanding money-based economy. The system put pressure on both landlords and tenants to increase the productivity of agriculture to make profit; the weakened coercive power of the aristocracy to extract peasant surpluses encouraged them to try better methods, and the tenants also had incentive to improve their methods in order to flourish in a competitive labor market. Terms of rent for land were becoming subject to economic market forces rather than to the previous stagnant system of custom and feudal obligation.

No. Aside from being in the insignia of that particular unit, the totenkopf was in much wider use in the SS, including as their universal cap badge. The SS totenkopf is a common nazi symbol.

And then the most psychopathic and power hungry individuals get filtered to the top of that authoritarian structure and whoops you’ve got a political ruling class who control everything and have no interest to relinquish their power. Totalitarian state capitalism à la Stalin.

I’m not saying that you can’t break a few eggs for the omelette, but you absolutely need to keep things decentralized and democratic. The alternative sets the stage for failure. The “dictatorship of the proletariat” shouldn’t be a literal dictatorship as in rule by the few.

Unless it’s intentional and they were talking about getting your guts and liver liberated from the confines of your body by an airstrike.

A per capita map would also be nice.

A problem of definitions. The word ‘liberal’ has a whole bunch of meanings depending on who you ask. Someone farther on the left usually uses the term to describe people who claim to support freedoms and rights for everyone, but only as long as they themselves don’t have to sacrifice a thing. People who go out to riot and get arrested for it definitely fall outside of that group.

Liberals don’t know how to organize precisely because the Democratic party dominates the elections. No need to organize when the organization already exists. All they need to do is to “vote blue no matter who”.