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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?
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 86: Starship Troopers (Part 2)
Episode 652: James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 85: Starship Troopers (Part 1)
Episode 651: James Baldwin: Go Tell It On the Mountain (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 84: Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Episode 650: James Baldwin: Go Tell It On the Mountain (1)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 83: The Man Who Traveled In Elephants
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 82: Menace from Earth
Episode 649: Richard Wright: The Outsider (Part 5 Decision)
Episode 647: Richard Wright: The Outsider (Part 4 Despair)
Episode 646: Richard Wright: The Outsider (Part 3 Descent)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 81: The Door Into Summer
Episode 645: Richard Wright: The Outsider (Part 2 Dream)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 80: Citizen of the Galaxy
Episode 644: Richard Wright: The Outsider (Part 1: Dread)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 80: Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 79: A Time for the Stars (Part 2)
Episode 643: Richard Wright: Black Boy (American Hunger), Part 3/3
Episode 642: Richard Wright: Black Boy (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein: Episode 78: Time for the Stars (Part 1)
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