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bucolic_frolic

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1. David Brooks didn't just decide to publish this on a whim
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 07:13 AM
Apr 21

There's an army of intelligentsia behind him. This should give us hope.

And Thom, the Communist Manifesto was published way way before 1926, in 1848 at the peak of the Revolutions of 1848, which were kind of an echo of the French Revolution, that swept across Europe in the spring of that year. Workers, students were faring poorly, the Irish emigration was already underway, waves of Germans emigrated to America as well, despots controlled many countries, the Bourbons were in full regale, the great Russian writers were exploring moral and economic conditions under Czarist rule.

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