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Finally started reading the communist manifesto
Sometimes I wonder if I should go and read some liberal theorists to know my enemy
Then I remembered I already read Harry Potter when I was 10
I actually chortled at this
When I was big on learning fascism, my brother bought me a book entitled “Fascism” something something by some former Secretary of State (a woman, I think under Clinton?). Just skimming I caught that she basically thought fascism was just “authoritarianism” or “extremism” and talked about “fascism both on the left and the right,” rolled my eyes and shelved it. But I’ve always thought about picking it up for the same reason, to get into the mine of a neoliberal ruling class ghoul.
It’s not as if their shitty ceteris paribus lines predicted the 2008 recession