Alexander the Great's empire and the Mongol Empire fell pretty damn fast.
--- On Sun, 4/19/09, socialismorbarbarism <socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: socialismorbarbarism <socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] timelines
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 3:02 PM
> Doug: empires-fall-slowly...
>
> Ahistorical, dontcha think? Under capitalism, change and
> disruption
> speed up per historical norms; things just change faster...
> much, much
> faster. How many Edwardians saw the end of the British
> Empire in their
> own--OK, maybe their child's--lifetime? And that empire had
> more
> "classical" characteristics than whatever the hell the US
> has.
>