Status Updates From Zwarthemden en Roden Ration...

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.”

Left anti-communism proves yet again that capitalistic and right propaganda won and we live in a semi democracy where we can only choose between (right) capitalistic parties.

America is a shit country. The concern for the free market over human lives is just disgusting.

Big W to Cuba btw

Done till chapter 4. Only now has any meaningful critique of communism appeared, and the picture he paints is a sad one, of people not knowing how well they had it and realizing it too late. It was also personally affirming for me, the idea that if people were left in charge of their own labour would prioritize their personal lives over their work. 6 hour work days do sound nice.

also he really hates Chomsky...

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

“To maintain profit levels, the large landowners and industrialists would have to slash wages and raise prices. The state in turn would have to provide them with massive subsidies and tax exemptions. To finance this corporate welfarism, the populace would have to be taxed more heavily, and social services and welfare expenditures would have to be drastically cut—measures that might sound familiar to us today.”