The future…It was supposed to be beautiful…It will be beautiful later…I believed that! [He’s practically screaming.] We believed in a beautiful life. Utopia…it was utopia…And how about you? You have your own utopia: the market. Market heaven. The market will make everyone happy! Pure fantasy! The streets are filled with gangsters in magenta blazers, gold chains hanging down to their bellies. Caricatures of capitalism, like the cartoons in Krokodil.*12 A farce! Instead of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it’s the law of the jungle: Devour the ones weaker than you, and bow down to the ones
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