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CRITIQUE:"[Revolution,] Counter-Revolution and Revolt"
This book is a Marxian analysis of political theory and practice concerning (American) capitalism, consumer society and politics during the period from 1968 to 1972.
At first, I wondered why the ti ...more "
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“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
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“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
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The Kindred Spirits
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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