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Just finished chapter 2! It explains very interesting parallels to the Covid-19 pandemic with the Black Plague using cats as imagery. Cats were massacred, stopping the best line of defense against the plague, not dissimilar to the overworking of essential workers and constant stigma against them in the current United States.
— Sep 05, 2025 05:09PM
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Finished chapter 1, and it's so far extremely digestible and easy to follow, especially for a book on theory and related to economic ideas (in this case, communism).
"As kings and nobles who rule in the feudal mode of production become signified by the lion, that other feline, the domestic cat, appears as a threat precisely because it is so similar."
— Sep 05, 2025 11:23AM
"As kings and nobles who rule in the feudal mode of production become signified by the lion, that other feline, the domestic cat, appears as a threat precisely because it is so similar."
