Efficient sacrifices include the industrial revolution in England or the modernization of Russia by Czar Peter I (1682-1725), projects that converted swamps into enormous metropolises and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their lives. Hinkelammert associates the sacrifices of Western modernization with the myth of Iphigenia, the Greek maiden who was sacrificed so that her father Agamemnon would triumph and become a hero.
Sacrificios eficientes fueron los de la revolución industrial en Inglaterra o la modernización de Rusia emprendida por el Zar Pedro I, el Grande (1682-1725), convirtiendo pantanos en enormes metrópolis.