Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 2:35 am
Nazi Flower Power wrote:Margno wrote:One big struggle of the powerful against the disenfranchised, who more often than not are the source of their power, yes, a lot of human history is that.
No, it is not. First of all, there is a lot of negotiation, cooperation, and peaceful development that has nothing to do with struggles of any kind. And even if you look at the part of history that involves conflicts, there are many separate conflicts between a wide variety of groups over a wide variety of issues. The majority of the fighting in the world is between different groups of powerful people and has nothing whatsoever to do with class warfare.
It sort of depends whether you look at the relationships between countries, or the structure of countries. I'm less concerned with the times things changed here, and more concerned with all the times they stayed the same. And the things that stayed the same as other things were changing. For example, hierarchical dynamics, power, the formation and retention of monopolies on coercion, and wealth distribution.