Idk if I’d use that headline with only 2 total wars in history to pull from. Far to confident with a sample size of only 2
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Because the largest industrial power on earth was a liberal democracy during the two total wars
stav_and_nick on
I’d personally question whether most of the liberal democracies were actually liberal
Until ~1965 the American south was a one party state using racial segregation and open violence and fraud to maintain power and that was allowed to happen
France likewise had an apartheid system in place in the colonies it granted sufferage to such as Algeria and Senegal which, while theoretically could allow natives to vote, in practice denied the franchise to most
Until 1921 the right to vote in the UK was based to an extent on wealth. Many of the men sent overseas to die were legally barred from voting
This is ignoring that all three had vast overseas colonial empires. Whether you lived in Hawaii in 1910 or India or Nigeria or indochina, did you have a liberal democracy? Of course not
Sure, not as bad as the alternative, but would you call Athens a liberal democracy? I personally wouldn’t
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Idk if I’d use that headline with only 2 total wars in history to pull from. Far to confident with a sample size of only 2
Because the largest industrial power on earth was a liberal democracy during the two total wars
I’d personally question whether most of the liberal democracies were actually liberal
Until ~1965 the American south was a one party state using racial segregation and open violence and fraud to maintain power and that was allowed to happen
France likewise had an apartheid system in place in the colonies it granted sufferage to such as Algeria and Senegal which, while theoretically could allow natives to vote, in practice denied the franchise to most
Until 1921 the right to vote in the UK was based to an extent on wealth. Many of the men sent overseas to die were legally barred from voting
This is ignoring that all three had vast overseas colonial empires. Whether you lived in Hawaii in 1910 or India or Nigeria or indochina, did you have a liberal democracy? Of course not
Sure, not as bad as the alternative, but would you call Athens a liberal democracy? I personally wouldn’t