Oh one more thing--cities are capitalist, rural places are communist
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Replying to @380kmh
This is tweet is where you stopped making good observations.
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Replying to @thaxted_
correction: this is where my observations stopped affirming what you already believed
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Replying to @380kmh
Damn I got owned. But I honestly don't see how the countryside could in any way be legitimately called communist.
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Replying to @thaxted_
I was deliberately using troll-y language, but my point was that cities = economy of trade, country = economy of subsistence
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Replying to @380kmh
Henri Pirenne, in his economic histories of the Middle Ages, accurately described the feudal economy as "the economy of no markets"
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the return of trade and commerce to Europe, beginning with Venice, gradually replaced feudalism with capitalism
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Mea culpa. I was trying to shock people into reconsidering their assumptions.
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