@davidreadsbigbooks: Day 120 — Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (2011) Reviewing one book daily for the next year. 245 books to go. Follow for more.
Agree on his first thesis.
His second thesis is too far from reality 😂
Wait until the author hears about the information revolution and knowledge workers 😂
2026-09-04 05:45:48
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Camerado :
I can see how it would’ve been a factor in the spread of democracy and the franchise, but England and the US had pretty long established, local democratic traditions that long predate coal. Seems more likely to me that limited democracy in a world of no democracy helped those countries become rich enough to industrialize early, and then the labor relations of industrialization help with the further development of democracy
2026-09-04 12:07:33
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Luka Polic 🔻 :
Lol this speculation is the embodiment of correlation doesn’t equal causation. Mfs will make up ANYTHING instead of reading Marx
2026-09-04 06:10:28
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