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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?
Episode: 559: Mark Twain: Innocents Abroad (Part 1)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 9: If This Goes On (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 8: If This Goes On (Part 1)
Episode 558: Mark Twain: Pudd’nhead Wilson
Robert A. Heinlein BookClub: Episode 7: Requiem
Episode 557: Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Part 3)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 6: The Roads Must Roll
Episode 556: Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club:Episode 5: Let There Be Light
Episode 555: Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Part 1)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 4: Misfit
Episode 554: Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (Part 4)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 3: Life-Line
Episode 553: Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (Part 3)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 2: For Us, the Living (Part 2)
Episode 552: Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (Part 2)
Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 1: For Us, the Living (Part 1)
Episode 551: Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (Part 1)
Episode 550:Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Part 2)
Episode 549: Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Part 1)
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