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Zinn is pretty good. Extremely transparent about his bias, which is the closest you will ever get to unbiased human history. Generally easy read. A revealing and relevant lesson on the fragility of capital's concessions to humanity. Broken treaties, the rapid repeal of civil war civil liberties, labor's declining power, environmental protections being stripped away, the fruit of the people's victories tends to have a short shelf life.
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just about done with ::ahem Adam Smith's Mistake: How a Moral Philosopher Invented Economics and Ended Morality starts off sorta rambly, real good intentioned but not exactly focused. when I hit the chapter on determinism I braced for the worst and when the author started talking about marx I'm glad I had braced myself. I'm not at all sorry I read the book, but man, reconcile morality with a totally materialistic and deterministic world, because that is clearly what we live in, or gtfo. like, be a dualist if you have to, gently caress, I'm pretty sure marx was and it worked for him.
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unlike manufacturing consent it's entertaining and not tedious
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