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This book is written by an angry humanitarian sciences doctor from the La Cherte University in Sur-La-Clef, a Dr. Benoit Mejean. He does not like Sur-La-Clef, La Cherte -- or in fact even the University he teaches in -- but what he likes even less is...
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Can't stand the shadow of it. This book promises to really get into everything that's wrong with capitalism -- to do so once and for all in an exhaustive and final manner.
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Critical theorists the world over agree: once everyone knows every last shortcoming of capitalism, capitalism will end. You are but one of billions, and there are over seven billion things wrong with capitalism, but one has to start somewhere. And Benoit Mejean, PhD, wants to start with...
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"Will this book make me more communist?"
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Yes, it will make you a little more communist. Not a lot. It won't unmake whatever else you are but you will also become a tad bit more communist, yes.
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Good. Here -- almost in the end, limping and bleeding -- is a good time to get into some communism.
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Then you've found the right book. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
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- It will. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
- Then don't read it. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
- Then you've found the right book. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
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It will. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
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Then don't read it. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
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Sure. The more communist books you read the more communist your brain becomes. That's how communism works.
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Enough. [Put the book away.]
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You start reading it, but it's hard to really understand anything. It's all some sort of garbled word-wankery. After a while you give up and put the book down.