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System Failure

The Matador's Cape (Part 2)

Women’s Lib: The Empire Strikes Back

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Nathan Knopp
Aug 09, 2022
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This is the 2nd of 3 mini-essays about the fundamental tension between democracy and wealth-hoarding. America is an experiment in both. We are a strange mixture of democratic ideals from Classical Greece and hierarchical capitalism from Renaissance Europe. That’s an explosive combination. So far, the wealth of American capitalism has been sequestered fr…

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