The TRUE Stages of Industrial Revolution that Britain Won't Tell You!

Most countries have decided to build industries for prosperity. However, many countries facing deficit problems are exactly due to their expansion of industrialization. Where did they go wrong? How come China, the world's manufacturing powerhouse avoided the same issue? Today, we have Professor Wen Yi from Shanghai Jiao Tong University to reveal the truth about the modern industrial revolution - that the British won't tell.

[SumoSuperemo]

On behalf of the viewers,

We are grateful to
Professor Yi Wen for sharing this valuable knowledge with us.

We extend sincere thanks to you sir.

I also thank Wave media for publishing this content.


-Pingu from 🇮🇳

[mahbrum]

The gist of the title of this video is at the end of this video where the professor stated, "democracy wasn't the driver behind industrialization and that it's a misleading concept".

[ElectroVibecom]

I think most african countries like mine Botswana need to study these steps carefully

[polo-kfyh]

Wow that is totally enlightening. Step by step analyses. Thanks

[JinFX]

The first stage is weapons manufacturing. Qings "proto-industrial" textiles were more profitable than industrial textiles, but they lost money to warlords and military defeats.

[stanbimi]

It's useful to compare this succinct presentation with Jared Diamond's theory proposed in "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies." What about China's ancient prosperous trade of industrial output such as porcelain wares and silk fabric? How did the ancient production systems fit within the industrialization model?

[zaniwoob]

Actually when this proffesor says most countries were not democracies (or representive systems) he omits a very important part. The dutched pioneered proto-industrialisation in combination with a global tradenetwork that connected global markets as well as the financial institutions that supported this. In the 17th century for example small dutch cities produced 1 million to 1.5 million tobaccopipes per year! These are industrial volumes!
The Netherlands(United Provinces) wasnt a monarchy it was a republic but it citizens were pragmatic, harmonious and protestantism enforced strict moral codes and social control.
It's decentralized system of governance did provide a template for many countries.

[jereflechis]

For a country with agrarian economy, how to finance proto-industrialisation ? (infrastructures, roads, vehicules to transport goods, agricultural machinery and light industry tools)

[thematronsmilitia]

Very interesting. I am curious what his prescription for the development of a working class movement in the so called "post-industrial" nations would be, where capitalists have refused the 4th step and chosen instead to offshore industrial production to suppress labor domestically and abroad. In building a system of dual power do we need to follow this same industrial development pathway?

[reginaldmorton]

Prof. Wen Yi needs to be broadcasted on a 24 hours bases

[indiansarebornpariahs]

None of which india was able to accomplish successfully

[georgeqi]

Making profits, then investing that profits to other industries to be sustainable.

[funwelly]

what about small countries ， are they just hopeless？

[dyrectory_com]

Crawl, walk, before you run and fly. 🐦

[Muakhah]

It is funny how he skips mentioning the Great Leap forward. Which was China trying to skip the first two steps straight to the third and causing massive loss of life. China's light industrialization was dependent of foreign markets, and even today might not be deep enough to sustain itself. The heavy industry (second attempt) was/is very successful, to the point that it has excess capacity. I doubt China will ever enter the welfare stage. The point at the end, to me, is why Europe and the US should have invested all that money years ago in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, because while they were new, often flawed democracies, economic growth would have strengthened the development of democracy. That won't happen in China.

[ribeirojorge]

The Virtuous Noble Lie of the West Demon Cracy ❤️💚💜

[marcv]

These are not the organic stages of industrialization. This is how to catch up to industrialized societies. His definitions and concepts are his own, which reappropriate other concepts such as proto-industrialization and industrial revolution.

[shambles]

Very interesting insight, thank you for that analysis. Within your framework, I understand that China is in the 4th phase of welfare-state. With this in mind, and acknowledging that all the previous phases were completed, I just want to place the great leap forward initiative in this context. Would the great leap forward be similar to the failed-starts of Africa which you mentioned, where heavy industrialisation was rushed into but didn't succeed? My understanding is that it was a very important lesson which China recovered from very quickly considering the state China is in right now.

[marcionphilologos]

NO, THE INDUSTRIALISATION WAS HISTORICAL. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? THIS MEANS THAT INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS WAS RELATED TO REAL EXISTING FORCES. FOR INSTANCE; GB WAS THE FIRST EMPIRE TO INDUSTRIALIZE, BY BINGING RAW MATERIALS TO THE ENGLISH HARBOR CITIES, TO BE PROCESSED BY POOR WORKERS. THE SECOND STEP IN INDUSTRIALISATION WAS HEAVY INDUSTRY, PROMOTING TRANSPORT AND CREATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES FOR SPREADING INDUSTRIALIZING TO ALL CITES. IN THE US AND OTHER BRITISH COLONIES WAS INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE STARTED USING SLAVES. THE PROFITS WERE INVESTED IN NEW INDUSTRY, NOW DIRECTED TOWARD IMPROVING THE AMINITIES OF CITIES. IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY THE US WAS INDUSTRIALIZED AND THE FORMER BOURGEOIS WOULD RISE WAGES TO LIFT THE CONSUMER POWER ETC. THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM WAS GROWN UP IN THE 60S, STIMULATING CONSUMERISM AND STATE SOCIALISM. THE US DID REJECT SOCIALISM AND EVOLVED TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM, CAUSING THE DE-INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE US AND THE COMING OF A FINANCIAL CRISIS. YET, IN THE EU EMERGED SOCIALIST SERVICE SOCIETIES, RELATIVE INDEPENDENT OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION. SO, WITHIN THE EU IT IS NOT IMPORTANT WHERE EV CARS ARE MADE, JUST THAT THE BIG PROFITS ARE MADE IN SELLING THEM WITHIN THE CONTINENT.

[drewh]

I think this professor is only presented with one way of fixed thinking, a narrow narrative without observing, or a more broad understanding of his surrounding cultures, societies, and countries. I believe there are many ways to adopt the conditions of a nation, culture, and existing society and political system to work with. Take Singapore, for example, its economy is highly based on a service economic rather than industrial production.