Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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perestroika

During the heady years of Gorbachev's perestroika in the 1980s

—p.99 What Communism Was (99) by Georgi Derluguian
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creative destruction

what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction", which he identified as being the core of capitalist dynamism

—p.88 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (71) by Michael Mann
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spatial fix

This is what some have called the "spatial fix" to capitalist crisis.

—p.87 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (71) by Michael Mann
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anomie

America suffers from anomie, an absence of shared norms, as well as alienation--Durkheim as well as Marx

—p.84 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (71) by Michael Mann
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double-dip recession

the Roosevelt administration's overconfidence that recovery was underway led it to deflate in 1937, which produced a "double-dip" recession

—p.78 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (71) by Michael Mann
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