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*Buries American Civilisation

How my Capital Volume 3 reading group’s going

"Karl Marx.... which I am sure most Marxists have read."

marx's handwritting

watercolor paintings from the book views of polar regions, by charles hamilton smith (undated but probably produced between 1830-50)

Just such a crisp, piercing depiction of the modern state of British power: conference calls, walking back and forth, listening to other people make decisions

If the Thermidorian Reaction never happened France would have been filled with megastructures like this

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read.” — Werner Herzog

Once upon a time in Karl-Marx-Stadt

"We've searched the entire universe, but haven't found God anywhere!" - Soviet poster (1960)

@oxfoxoxfox 🔥

@adam_tooze i suspect primarily attributable to the reforms to the iron rice bowl, and rapidity of urbanisation which lessened the number of families performing subsistence farming

It may not have been shock therapy in the strict sense (a la Russia), but was Chinese society “shocked” in the 1990s? Cleary it was! Look at the collapse in fertility in a matter of years. This and more in the Chartbook Top Links today.

Of course this guy is right. This is one of the all-time True Tweets. The world’s smartest people are - without exception - dishevelled and miserable. This is why every self-proclaimed 140 IQ billionaire startup guy should be dragged into the street and shot like a rabid dog.

despite what people say sydney is a well designed city, but it could always be improved. i am calling on @TransportforNSW to: - mandate the 423 bus comes 1 hr and 20 mins late - remove 2 lanes from parramatta road - destroy the metro - mandate all trains stop at macdonaldtown