German philosopher and historian whose concept of 'fellaheen' and theories about civilization are discussed in relation to Chinese intellectual Liu Zhongjing.
"not overtly, just enough to get away with saying things like "well yeah obviously second wave feminism kind of ruined everything" at dinner parties full of software developers and new dads who all pretended to read Spengler."
"For Liu, China is no longer a nation, but the remains of a nation, peopled by the fellaheen — the word in Arabic is فلاحين, close enough to the Chinese nóngmín 农民, or the English "peasant," but Spengler uses it to refer to a fallen class that has been robbed of national destiny. The fellaheen (fèil"