He was a staunch economic libertarian, advocated minimum taxation on large businesses (preferring village pillage instead -- for the rhyme-scheme) and was eventually imprisoned for insider trading.
The reply was politically inconclusive, but sufficiently conclusive in other ways that nobody ever did get round to finding out what he thought on the subject.
He was highly pro-immigration I believe. Mostly him immigrating to other people's countries and taking their benefits - like land, food, the right to breathe etc.
Darn, I was reading about this just the other day - can't remember exactly where.
Thing is, he wasn't just into mass conquest, he was into the mass slaughter of the conquered. There was one city where the defenders were so totally overwhelmed by the force of the Mongol attack that he could just allocate a fairly small number of his warriors to execute the entire population.
I expect many right-wingers might balk at the classification of such policies as 'right-wing', but I'm quite happy with it. :)
Well, I guess he was in favour of the state controlling everything, so long as he was the state. I don't think he'd have supported healthy competition from other barbarian invaders, or allowed himself to be subject to independent market forces.
I'm not sure. I think he would have taken it for granted that in a fully open competition he would be universally triumphant, and therefore he would be all in favour of tearing down all barriers to free movement of goods, services, labour and barbarian hordes.
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The reply was politically inconclusive, but sufficiently conclusive in other ways that nobody ever did get round to finding out what he thought on the subject.
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Of course, Kublai was the smart one.
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Thing is, he wasn't just into mass conquest, he was into the mass slaughter of the conquered. There was one city where the defenders were so totally overwhelmed by the force of the Mongol attack that he could just allocate a fairly small number of his warriors to execute the entire population.
I expect many right-wingers might balk at the classification of such policies as 'right-wing', but I'm quite happy with it. :)
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Tut, Sam. You're absolutely shameless. There are lots of lovely right-wingers out there. My in-laws for instance, are perfectly lovely. :)
Nevertheless.
*giggles*
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