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Writtenology 6: War, Wine, and Taxes (Patreon)

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2023-05-29 09:26:08
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Riley read a book called “War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900,” which is all about English free trading self delusions and the origins of the present in strange quirks and corners of the past, and how neoliberal historians are frequently a little Marxist (sort of) without realizing it.

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Patrick Lopez

Oooh, I'm a distinguished hog. FANCY BOOOOY.

etienne

making so much dough over alcohol tariff for actual domestic consumption is so odd to me, like it implies that most people had a lot of excess value that the government could take and redistribute but somehow the only way to get at it was to tax liquor did it end up like that because people felt that drinking was a fair enough thing to tax because individual consumers could opt out at their will by just not drinking? edit: or I guess by switching to drink domestic

Jacob Barlow

A relatively trite point, but one that this clarified for me. The 'free market' came in to being in precisely the same moment that its justifying ideology was rendered impotent. To put it in a pretensious but fun way, right wing libertarianism is born anti-transcedentally (cisscendentally?) out of the conditions of its own impossibility.

Kapjak

If you're taking book suggestions can I suggest Blood and Money by David McNally?

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it's so funny to me how much of british history is full of bad shit except the good shit we occasionally do, which invariably was done in order to spite the french