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“The revolution had peeled his eyes open; even as he saw the hidden realm of power and greed, he realized at the heart of the old council’s putsch was not ambition but fear. They were terrified that the city’s lower ranks would sit with them at the same table, shake their hands as if they were all men, as if there were no masters and no servants, as if the city was a common bounty.

“”We are all on the verge of death. Each and every Syrian can be killed at any moment. So tomorrow there will be a funeral. And tomorrow we will continue the festival. It’s okay- so long as it is for the sake of the revolution.”

DNF. Got a third of the way into it and the premise bugged me too much to continue.

“Is it precisely the Third World people who have every right to demand that the Western European and American white middle class give up *their* standard of living and redistribute wealth so we can all survive. Otherwise, the Third World will have to pay the price for the “development” & high standard of living of the First World in the way Castro proposed, & he definitely won’t be the only one to blame.”