Episode 564: Mark Twain: Roughing It (Part 2)

American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
03/03/2023 23 min Episodio 830
Episode 564: Mark Twain: Roughing It (Part 2)

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In part 2 of my review of ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain, I find some of the most important commentary and observations on the betrayals at the heart of the ideology of democratic capitalism, and clues as to why the West was so quickly tamed by capital, big business, and government (later the military-industrial complex). Is there any future to an economy built on speculation?

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