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page 118 “State socialism, “the system that did not work,” provided everyone with some measure of security. Free-market capitalism, “the system that works,” brought a free-falling economy, financial plunder, deteriorating social conditions, and mass suffering.”
— Feb 10, 2026 06:07AM
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Conservative ideologues defend capitalism as the system that preserves culture, traditional values, the family, and community. Marxists would respond that capitalism has done more to undermine such things than any other system in history, given its wars, colonizations, and forced migrations, its enclosures, evictions, poverty wages, child labor, homelessness, underemployment, crime, and drug infestation.” pg 124
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page 36 “Today, no one in U.S. policy circles worries about the politico-economic oppression suffered in dozens of right-wing client states. Their professed desire to bring Western political democracy to nations that have had revolutions rarely extends to free-market autocracies.”
— Feb 01, 2026 06:57PM
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quote below about how fascists in italy learned from us conservatives how to achieve fascism’s class goals while remaining within the liberal semi-democratic framework
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