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Primitive Accumulation: The Collapse of Feudalism (www.youtube.com)

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Damn this is a good video! It's amazing how clear and cogent materialist history is compared to liberal, idealist history. This video lays out the way the transition to capitalism was disastrous for the peasantry, who resisted proletarianization at every step of the way. It also gives a lot of attention to capitalism's invention of modern gender roles as means of economic warfare against women. It's class conflict all the way down.

I really strongly recommend you take the time to give this a watch, it's good shit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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22:10 - "The maternal mortality rate hovered around 8% per birth. This meant that the average woman giving birth at least 6 times throughout her life faced an accumulated 48% chance of death in order to fulfil the reproductive demands of the feudal household."

That's not how the math works. When you have a rate of decay that's iterated multiple times, you don't take the chance of decay and multiply it as a scalar. You take the remnant, and treat that as a base for an exponent. In this case, instead of 8% × 6 = 48% death (wrong), it's 0.92 ^ 6 = 60.6% survival.

This doesn't change the point being made- 39.4% lifetime maternal mortality is still horrifically oppressive- but I would hope whoever's carrying the banner on economics and a "scientific" approach to history would have good mastery of middle school math.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: