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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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tax-funded training camps

In capitalist societies like the United States, where public schools are increasingly used as tax-funded training camps for corporate workplaces, curriculum and standards focus more on preparing children for the demands of adulthood than on their immediate needs and development. Tech ceos from Bill…

—p.93 The First Red Century Red Diaper Babies (90) by Megan Erickson
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the child is the responsibility of the parents

In capitalist societies, each nuclear family is thought to be a private entity, operating in opposition to each other and distinct from the state. Evangelicals might insist there be a patriarch at the head of that family, while liberals envision a broader spectrum of possible arrangements. But the …

—p.92 Red Diaper Babies (90) by Megan Erickson
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the debt crisis and the Eastern Bloc

In this sense, the developments in the Eastern Bloc countries played a decisive role in breaking up the Soviet Union. Most important in this regard was Gorbachev’s explicit reversal of the Brezhnev doctrine, making clear that the USSR would not intervene to shore up the beleaguered Eastern Bloc reg…

—p.60 The Man Who Brought Pizza (58) by David Broder
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the so-called crisis of capitalism

With respect to the relations of the Soviet Union to the Communist Parties in the West, a discussion seems to be taking place in Russia regarding what advantage the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Parties can make of the so-called crisis of capitalism. They can’t agree. Their …

—p.49 Brussels, Dec. 12 1975 (46) by Jacobin
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into the dustbin of history

Now transformed into a small minority, the Right srs and Mensheviks attacked the Bolshevik action. Even Martov denounced the “coup d’état,” but also put forth a resolution calling for an interim all-Soviet government and plans for a constituent assembly. Many Bolsheviks supported the motion and it …

—p.26 The Few Who Won (17) by Bhaskar Sunkara