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charl08
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In capitalism, people claimed to be free and equal, but this was only on paper because only the rich could take advantage of the rights available.....
'Do you remember Black Boy?' teacher Nora asked when we read Richard Wright's autobiography in school. 'In the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, a poor black person cannot be free. The police are after him. The law works against him.'

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Schwifty
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Pickpick

While I was in Berlin, I met a British tour guide who referenced this specific book as a great introduction to the advent and dissolution of East Germany or the German Democratic Republic. Funny enough, I was already reading it. Hoyer does a particularly nice job with the format relating individual experiences of citizens of various locales, backgrounds, industries, dissenters and true believers and builds the historical narrative off this device.

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Anna40
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Pickpick

The concise history of the GDR covers the time leading up to the building of the Wall and ending in 1990. Hoyer aims to show the reader what life in the GDR was like - including welfare state, home and family, popular culture and foreign relations -while also focusing on key figures such as Walter Ulbricht, Erich Honecker and head of Stasi, Erich Mielke. When it comes to women‘s equality, the GDR was one step ahead of the west: women were working

Anna40 full time because they could: there was childcare and there was work and education. But sadly no socialist ideology has ever succeeded and the oppression of political opposition was ruthless. Highly recommended. 2mo
JulietteReadsALot You're always reading interesting books 📚📚📚 Love your reviews! 2mo
Anna40 Thanks @JulietteReadsALot I love your reviews and book selections too! 😊💕 2mo
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Trashcanman
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“What happened to the U.S businesses that collaborated with fascism? Corporations like DuPont, Ford, General Motors, and ITT owned factories in the enemy countries that produced fuel, tanks, and planes that wreaked havoc on allied forces. After the war instead of being prosecuted for treason ITT collected 27 million from the U.S government for war damages inflicted on its German plants by allied bombings. G.M collected over 33 million

Trashcanman You can‘t make this shit up. 3mo
Bookwormjillk You really can‘t 3mo
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Deblovestoread Unbelievable 🤯🤬🤬🤬 3mo
TheBookHippie Blows my mind everytime. 3mo
wanderinglynn Every time the rich will take care of themselves and ultimately get richer. Often on the backs of the poor and minorities. A recurring theme throughout history. 3mo
mcctrish It‘s just so disgusting 3mo
Mimi28 This is a nightmare and I want to wake up and go home - oh, wait, I am awake and this IS home. 3mo
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Trashcanman
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“What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura”

Sound familiar?
#Thewholethingithinkitssick
#gobacktosleep

BookwormAHN Unfortunately 🤦🏼‍♀️ 3mo
Leftcoastzen Indeed 3mo
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Trashcanman
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“Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism‘s raison d‘être.“

The Cheeto and his minions co-opt nationalist rhetoric and militarism to channel discontent away from economic inequality and toward scapegoated groups. The Cheeto wants workers to remain divided and unable to organize effectively against exploitation.

#gobacktosleep

Deblovestoread Yep, this is where we are. Unbelievable, isn‘t it? 💔 3mo
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Trashcanman
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History teaches us that all ruling elites try to portray themselves as the natural and durable social order, even ones that are in serious crisis, and that threaten to devour their environmental base in order to continually recreate their hierarchical structure of power and privilege.

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Trashcanman
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Third World revolutionaries are branded as the enemies of stability.
“Stability” is a code word for a society in which privileged social
relations are securely entrenched. When popular forces mobilize
against privilege and wealth, this causes “instability,” which is judged
to be undesirable by U.S. policymakers and their faithful flacks in the
U.S. corporate media.

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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Karl Marx: His Life and Environment by Isaiah Berlin
📖 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

Leftcoastzen 👏👍 5mo
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Xclamation
The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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It's fine. At this point in history the Communist Manifesto is more of a novelty than anything else. Discovering that about a third of this plus-sized pamphlet is devoted to shit-talking other leftists really drove home that nothing in it was new or scary even at the time. The Communist Manifesto is, upon inspection, revealed as really nothing more than a single piece of a long running, much more widespread conversation.