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Did the Thirty Years’ War Produce Capitalism? (jacobin.com)

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, not sure if I agree with much of this, but it's still very interesting. Gonna listen to the podcast and do my own research.

it has been at least half a year since I listened to this (though I have listened to it fully twice) so I could be very wrong here

That's fine. I don't expect you to perfectly summarize 20 hours worth of podcast in few paragraphs. Thanks for the effort!

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I will say, much like the Thirty Years war itself, the podcast is abit disorganized. Matt has a tendency to skip around abit, which means when I went through the second time I actually started writing down dates and events to create a timeline, because there is a lot of stuff that happens simultaneously but it is addressed in different parts.

It's a fun listen for sure though, incredibly brutal. Really feel bad for the ana-baptists.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's the thing that scares me about this podcast tbh. Is there maybe a book I can read that has this thesis laid out in a more organized way?

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Idk if anyone else specifically shares this thesis, but I believe they have all the works cited on their website? Which I think is hellonearth.com?

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

lmao wtf is this website

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

It's a shakedown.

The domain owner had some old blog that is sitting on potentially valuable domain name. Looks like this podcast offered them $500 for the domain (guessing based on the timing but there are other projects with similar names including Doom 2, a documentary and a book series) which they thought was too low. They have made the site into a splash page of offensive images for anyone looking for the pod in order to incentivize Mat to pay more to avoid reputation damage. In order to prevent any legal take over of the domain they have created a plausibly deniable facade of it being an inoffensive art work.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Clearly not the right one! Mb, it's this one https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I liked the other one better tho

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Lol try this one

https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/

[–] iie@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the second time I actually started writing down dates and events to create a timeline

You should consider sharing this some time!

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I would if I hadn't thrown it out when I moved recently. I can probably do a recreation over winter break at some point.