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The introduction made my eyes wet and the rest is no better. Suffering, uncertainty, bombs, frightened kids. 😖
This is what people of Gaza went and are going through. 😢

Red Petrograd is boiling in the winter of 1917

Let us bid farewell to the ‘childhood of Man’ and acknowledge (as Lévi-Strauss insisted) that our early ancestors were not just our cognitive equals, but our intellectual peers too.
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They were neither ignorant savages nor wise sons and daughters of nature. They were, as Helena Valero said of the Yanomami, just people, like us; equally perceptive, equally confused.

Second read and I'm enjoying every single line of it.

Emerging from the earth’s bowels, these things, gold and silver, incarnate, at once and directly, all human labor. Hence the magic of money. Human beings now behave in a purely atomistic way in their social production process, and their own relations of production have a thingly form independent of their control and conscious individual action;