which actually is about is good timing. you think 19312 is the year when all the protests really broke loose in the great depression. i have one more question for both of you guys. isn t the international context a factor, too? if you think about the 1930s, there was people believed a real alternative to capitalism. actually, we forget this now, but from the outside, i think this was completely wrong, but from the outside, the soviet union looked pretty great. that s right. which i thought they were lying. they. they were killing people, right? yeah. they were murdering people. but they were also building factorie factories. they were electrifying. they were industrializing. that was part of the global political discourse whereas today what strikes me as really sort of one of the key issues for everyone is, okay, we see industrial global financial capitalism is not working perfectly. but what is the alternative?
good timing. you think 19312 is the year when all the protests really broke loose in the great depression. i have one more question for both of you guys. isn t the international context a factor, too? if you think about the 1930s, there was people believed a real alternative to capitalism. actually, we forget this now, but from the outside, i think this was completely wrong, but from the outside, the soviet union looked pretty great. that s right. which i thought they were lying. they. they were killing people, right? yeah. they were murdering people. but they were also building factorie factories. they were electrifying. they were industrializing. that was part of the global political discourse whereas today what strikes me as really sort of one of the key issues for everyone is, okay, we see industrial global financial capitalism is not working perfectly. but what is the alternative? does the left have a clearly
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