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'I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.' Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump 'Racially Purifying' the US (zeteo.com)

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The acclaimed novelist's essay on the Republicans' attempt to take us back to the 19th century – and where he finds hope.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“You do it to yourself, you do

And that’s why it really hurts

You do it to yourself, just you

You and no one else”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Contradictions push and pull us between the opposite ends of the same thing or process. Generally, most of these contradictions bubble below the surface. Every few years, however, they boil over into a crisis. To survive, capitalism must continually try to “solve” its contradictions, but can only shift them to different places, delay them, and raise their intensity. source