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How Capitalist Utopia Became Everyone Else’s Dystopia
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umair haque
kim johnson
kim johnson
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

That story of stupidity, greed and selfishness, is only half of the horror. The other half is the exclusion, hatred, envy and exploitation of non-Whites. That is why James Baldwin was able predict the self-defeating absurdity of the US society and economy long before the 1980s.

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