Peter Ryan

Research on economics, history, and tech @Ryan_Research | Special focus on Ireland

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Just dropped an eBook/PDF of “Money by Vile Means.” Nowhere else will you get:

- What Bitcoin actually is (why it's corrupted)
- Debunked myths of decentralization
- Hidden stablecoin endgame = shadow central banking

If you're tired of the hype, grab it now.

(link below)

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@pilgoth It is written:

Hudson: “son of the mind/spirit”

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

The lumpenprole right vs. the aristocratic left.

The 19th century connotations of the right and left have swapped in the past two decades.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mahboiii Dragonflies?

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mahboiii Yup, I rec you give Dumezil a read. He is not arguing for a particular hierarchy like a dopey conservative reactionary. He is arguing that this myth undergirds our individual and collective psyche

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

I find it harder and harder to distinguish modern capitalism and its antithesis of socialism from past iterations of oligarchy and democracy. I don't know what exactly is so different besides the form factors and scale.

I think people get too emotional on these labels and I've often tried to abolish them from my thinking. Capitalism and socialism simply don't exist, but human society does.

The defining characteristic of our modern era is not so much that we have a market, as we always had markets, it's that we blew up the sacred and the sovereign and overemphasized the material. Everything is downstream from that imbalance.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

I think I finally crystalized 19th century economic ideological history with this dumb cartoon

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mahboiii Celtic or something...

"Gaul united,
Forming a single nation
Animated by a common spirit,
Can defy the Universe"

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mahboiii That's consistent with Dumezilian thought

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

100% @TheStalwart - "So if you want to understand capitalism, you need to be talking to small business owners, portfolio managers, and Marxists. Nobody else can really talk about it with any substance."

perfect cartoon on ideology that blinds most others: @ZackMaril

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Yes "balance" is the keyword I keep coming back to.

"Distribution" is went left and right of convention discuss in contrast.

I rather inquire about what does balance look like and does distribution matter if it is not balanced across the spheres of society. Do we need more or less distribution of material or a balance of the orders where the sacred and sovereign check the materialist.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

I am not against the French Revolution in the Anglo sense. I align with the revolutionary zeitgeist and Napoleon’s emergent order. That seems to be the legitimate recreation of a natural tripartite model than what the absolutist monarchs were doing in league with emergent bourgeois merchants.

My point is not any particular person or hierarchy but the platonic ideal of such.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mr_Boots88 @Mahboiii Do they come with 32 month zero percent financing?

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Capitalism is an “accidental phenomenon” as Reinert said.

And in a sense, capitalism only exists as a shadow of Marxism because Marxism had to de facto define what it was critiquing.

There were no card carrying self-described zealots of capitalism before Marxism.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

The thing is. And this was a major 🔑 for me several years ago, in thinking about the podcast, is that communists are obsessed with capitalism. Some of them are so obsessed that they might even secretly love it. Whereas capitalists rarely spend any time thinking about it.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mahboiii @spandrell4 All worth considering...I just find it thought provoking to get out of the conventional college dorm room disgust at the three estates which are obviously based on Duzemil's tripartite model and think of how that tripartite model can be evolved

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@sadarlo1

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

@Mahboiii I've been thinking about Dumezil's tripartite model more and more. It's a totally different way to see society that doesn't fall into logical pretzels of capitalism and socialism.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Alexander Parvus (Helphand) was one of the most impactful Marxists on history and this is how he was described:

"He was a Marxist millionaire: a nouveau riche with a mission"

"He lived like an oriental potentate, surrounded by an ostentatious show of wealth."

"Helphand himself mainly made money: his gains from the coal business ran into millions of kroner. He never denied the profits he was making: he even was, in his way, rather off-hand about them. 'Be it far from me', he wrote in 1918, 'to justify capitalist gain by personal qualities. But I do not see why I should not bring some of the surplus value, hoarded by the capitalist class, over to my side.' He was, he admitted, a 'businessman, industrialist, capitalist', but he was not using his money any more selfishly than was customary at the time...In relation to money, Helphand did not feel himself bound by the conventional socialist code."

"He was an opportunist in business, and a passionate businessman: he had no scruples in exploiting the weaknesses of a system for which he had no liking whatever. For this reason he was unable to treat his financial success with the respect that was its due. The money he made was less important for him personally than for his political plans. He was a Marxist millionaire: a nouveau riche with a mission...On both occasions, Helphand showed that he believed that any political aim could be realized with sufficient money, that the élite of the socialist leaders could resist the lure of mammon no more than any other social group, that friendship, as much as political support, had to be bought. Such a view informed his political strategy: it was the essence of his political and human experience."

[Image of Parvus to the left of Leon Trotsky]

https://t.co/bBfd03LFRh

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Alexander Parvus pitched the German state on how the Bolshevik Revolution could be used as a tool by Germany to attack Russia from within.

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Good list

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

Who should you follow on China tech?

One great place to start is the brilliant guests who’ve been on my High Capacity podcast—now at 20 episodes!

Here they are and the topics we covered:

1. Georg Stieler (@GeorgStieler) — China’s industrial robotics revolution

2. Tu Le (@SinoAutoInsight) — China’s EV industry and global competition

3. Grace Shao (@Gracemzshao) — China’s AI ecosystem and tech giants

4. Lei Xing (@leixing77) — Autonomous driving and robotaxis

5. Afra Wang (@Afrazhaowang) — China’s tech culture and entrepreneurs

6. Kevin Xu (@kevinsxu) — China’s rise in open source

7. Tom Wang (@Xianbao_QIAN) — Chinese AI models, open source, and agents

8. Rui Ma (@ruima) — China’s tech strengths and weaknesses

9. Zixuan Li (@ZixuanLi_) — Inside Zai and China’s GLM models

10. TP Huang (@tphuang) — AI chips, energy, and industrial supply chains

11. Paul Triolo (@pstAsiatech) — China’s semiconductor industry

12. Ruby Wang (@RcjWang) — China’s AI healthcare and biotech revolution

13. Matt Sheehan (@mattsheehan88) — China’s evolving approach to AI safety

14. Nathan Lambert (@natolambert) — Frontier AI, open source, and regulation

15. Abigail Coplin — China’s biotech rise and innovation ecosystem

16. Fengming Lu (@FengmingLuPE) — How China really built its EV industry

17. Zilan Qian (@ZilanQian) — China’s hidden AI economy

18. Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) — US-China AI competition and cooperation

19. Kendra Schaefer (@kendraschaefer) — China’s AI regulation and governance

20. Sunny Cheung (@SunnyCheungky) — China’s humanoid robots and supply chains

All episodes available on:
- YouTube: https://t.co/6U2kLPRgpT
- Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/rNrq96gYGS
- Spotify: https://t.co/Wdq1D0ThXu