Reddit reviews History of the Persian Empire

>Menelaus is LITERALLY a cuck tho.

That's fair, although this guy is a 'race realist' per his posts on the SS forums.

I would agree with all the rest of your post, except the bit about LP. At least, I'm pretty sure I've seen SSLP mentioned on the site for a long time.

I am completely in agreement with this:

>Anyway I'm just buttmad because they've completely neglected all the Ancient Near Eastern shit.

Been trying to wade through this for a while. Can't seem to find the time to do so. Sure as shit not going to graduate to reading cuneiform though after I do it though, haha.

The Achaemenud Empire did have slavery, just not our conception of it.

To quote:
>Regarding the Achaemenid Empire, there is a great deal of textual evidence for the existence of slaves during their empire. Just as we have several sale contracts of slaves from Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Seleucid Empires from Uruk (in Babylonia), we also have some from the Persian Period. One such document (Text 143, from Strassmaier, 1890, Inschriften von Kambyses) talks about the "branding" of the hand of a slave in both Akkadian and Aramaic. Similarly, two Aramaic documents from Achaemenid Egypt cite a similar practice of slave-branding (Texts 22 & 41 from Grelot, 1972, Documents araméens d'Égypte). Perhaps surprisingly, the same practice exists in Quintus Curtius Rufus' Alexandrian history. At V.5.5-6, he describes some Greek prisoners of war in the hands of the Persians, and they also have the same branding with "Persian letters." Now, they are not directly named "slaves," but the connection is not difficult to imagine.

The Culture and Social Institutions of Iran.
Another saucy link

Also about Japan. They had a smiliar transition to Europe.

>In the period from AD 1000 to AD 1500 world commercialization had developed sufficiently to trigger a major capitalist takeoff in those two parts of the world, Western Europe and Japan, that had the most suitable preconditions for capitalist development These preconditions involved size, location, geography, demography, and feudal politico-economic arrangements. World-transforming capitalism would eventually have emerged even in the absence of these preconditions, but such conditions greatly facilitated its development.
Here is the JSTOR link for the paper

So besides your two meager stabs at a theoretical framework, do you have anything else? Also please back up your claims if you want to make an honest attempt at critiquing not only communist theory but also capitalist and the like.

Although Cyrus the Great did ostensibly abolish slavery, it either didn't stick or was simply a nominal proclamation, because there is a lot of evidence which supports that widespread slavery did exist in the Achaemenid Empire. Wars provided a substantial source of slaves, as captives were often sold into slavery as "booty of the bow". Even the royal estate kept a large retinue of slaves, and state-owned slaves worked in mines (which was evidently extremely grueling work).

One form of slavery which did die out in the Achaemenid period was debt slavery, where debtors could sell themselves into slavery. This was popular in Babylon but was stamped out under Persian rule.

Sources:
The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran
History of the Persian Empire