Geopolitics Explains Class Conflict

Updated: 2025.08.01 2M ago 2 sources
Apply the 'maritime order vs continental anarchy' lens to Western domestic politics: accountable, market‑exposed sectors favor positive‑sum efficiency, while credentialed bureaucracies and protected professions behave like resilience‑maximizing blocs. When these unaccountable groups expand, they can erode both economic efficiency and societal resilience. — If internal class incentives mirror wartime logics, fixing institutional performance at home becomes a prerequisite for sustaining a rules‑based order abroad.

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Trump's Tariffs and those Goddamned Freeloading Europeans
eugyppius 2025.08.01 55% relevant
The article adopts the maritime-vs-continental frame—U.S./UK sea powers preventing a dominant continental hegemon and keeping Europe within a U.S.-led order via NATO—echoing the broader thesis that maritime 'order' logics shape Western politics and alliances.
The struggles of states, the contentions of classes
Lorenzo Warby 2025.07.13 100% relevant
The piece cites David Goodhart’s Anywheres/Somewheres and Richard Miniter’s 'accountable vs unaccountable' classes and claims the latter now mold Western discourse.
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