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A lot to say about this book.

Every time Stalin’s intense paranoia and caution is mentioned it is immediately followed by “and then Stalin’s worst fears came true…” and it’s related to heavy handed US foreign policy.

Also, the word democracy has no meaning to some historians. It’s simple, if you’re allied with the west you’re immediately considered a democracy w out any further unpacking…

The drive for profit in the capitalist sector is behind the inexorable expansion of credit. A fall in the rate of profit promotes speculation. If the capitalists cannot make enough profit producing commodities, they will try making money betting on the stock exchange or buying various other financial instruments.

“What the story of the Great Depression and WW2 shows is that once capitalism is in the depth of a depression, there must be a grinding and deep destruction of all that capitalism had accumulated in value in previous decades before a new era of expansion becomes possible.”