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Contents
Future history
Spiral development
Historical patterns
Slave economy
Land-duty economy
Capitalist economy
Economic trends
State trends
Society trends
Summary history
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Appendices
Capitalist globalization
Historical Materialism
Disproving Marxism
Proof of the theory
Biological lifecycles
Lifecycle examples
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Societies have alternated between decentralized and centralized government models.
The state has centralized or decentralized following the economy’s centralization or decentralization.
Primitive society was decentralized.Slavery saw the introduction of the centralized state.
Slave states collapsed in the transition to decentralized Land-duty states.
The rise of capitalism was preceded by the centralized absolute monarchies. After these monarchies were overthrown, centralized modern states formed.
Following this pattern, the next stage after capitalism should be decentralized. Content copyright: Nathan Davis 2003-2010
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