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

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

  • whithom
    5·
    22 hours ago

    “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”

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPM
      21·
      22 hours 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