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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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internecine

Lost in this internecine dispute

—p.39 Digging Free of Poverty (32) by Thea Riofrancos
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officious

transferring 40 percent of its economic interest [...] officious behavior that many protested

—p.34 Digging Free of Poverty (32) by Thea Riofrancos
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on coal miners' skepticism about climate change

That McDowell coal miner might be skeptical about climate change but that’s only because those are the cards (and the economy) capitalism has dealt him. Instead of trying to get him to #FuckingLoveScience, we should be trying to organize him into a socialist program of full employment and democrati…

—p.23 Victory Over the Sun (18) by Connor Kilpatrick
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tighten your belts

But when workers heard the ruling class say “tighten your belts,” they correctly understood that such a program was never going to apply to the wealthy. It would always mean: lower your expectations. And accept a worse tomorrow for your children. The entire history of the labor movement was cle…

—p.22 Victory Over the Sun (18) by Connor Kilpatrick