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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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when you reject utopia

Reason, which is essential to keep the machinery in motion, necessarily contains its other. When you start to think, you cannot stop short at purely reproductive thinking. This does not mean that things will really work out like that, but you cannot think without thinking that otherness. The genera…

—p.4 Towards a New Manifesto The Role of Theory (1) by Theodor W. Adorno
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the Nazi immediate economic program

The centerpiece of their July 1932 election propaganda, the Wirstchaftliches Sofortprogramm (the immediate economic program) laid out an alternative to austerity that looked an awful lot like the WTB plan. The pamphlet's first three points could not have been more anti-austerity: first, "unemploy…

—p.196 Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea Austerity's Natural History, 1914-2012 (178) by Mark Blyth
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hyperinflation was deliberate

[...] the German government's deliberate policy, designed to make the payment of reparations, especially after the French occupation of the Ruhr, all but impossible. [...] As Albrecht Ritschl put it succinctly, "Inflation proved to be a formidable weapon against reparations creditors, at least in t…

—p.193 Austerity's Natural History, 1914-2012 (178) by Mark Blyth
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