Yugoslavia, in Afghanistan, in Ukraine.
I was also thinking Yugoslavia. The people there also thought, surely it can't get that bad and made the same choices - or believed it was their choice - as the people in Lynch's book. You can add Gaza to the list now.
As a device this takes some getting used to, though it makes more sense as the book goes on and the claustrophobia builds. To begin with it acts as a barrier, as though one must fight one’s way into a book that is resisting being read.
Wow, okay so it it's not just me, thank you! Though during the last hundred pages I had gotten used to it and the resistance turned into an urge to not stop reading, while simultaneously being revulsed.
man muss vielmehr empirisch nachvollziehen, was es tut.
*was Menschen damit tun
Such a programme would incorporate the existing demands of the working class, including economic demands for a living wage and pensions, reversal of austerity measures, implementing workers’ control in the existing state sector, major public works to rebuild the country’s economy, and the expropriation of the banks and major companies to fund all this.
übergangsprogramm
Meanwhile, when it comes to drones, robotics and missiles – technologies which are changing war as we know it – China is leading the way.
China noch hinter den USA bei Anzahl von Flugzeugträgern und an Qualität des Militärs (USA sind erprobt und haben bessere Integration der Verbände).
Aber China ist führend bei den neuen Technologien - Drohnen, Überschallrakete und Roboter.
The irrationality of capitalism is such that powerful technological advancements, which should by rights help humanity reach a new golden age, exacerbate the underlying contradictions of the system. Meanwhile, myopic gamblers rush to enrich themselves before the next big crash.
bottom line
Erstaunliche
Erstaunlich wegen dem Wallis? Sonst ja nicht. Schon seit Engels ist klar, dass die Urgesellschaften egalitär waren.