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Understanding Socialism
- De: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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A blend of history, analysis, and theory, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.
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Very Enlightening
- De Eric Marecek en 08-16-21
- Understanding Socialism
- De: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
A great introduction
Revisado: 07-03-22
Professor Wolff does a great job explaining the basics of Marx and socialism, the history of the moment, and it’s relevance today. For those with only a surface level understanding (or misunderstanding) of the subject this is a good, cogent introduction without having to dive into an overly academic tome.
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We've Got People
- From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
- De: Ryan Grim
- Narrado por: Sean W. Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political stardom - has been building for 30 years...With the party and the nation at a crossroads, this timely and original audiobook offers new insight into how we’ve gotten where we are - and where we're headed.
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Excellent and illuminating, despite tech "issue"
- De DanoB en 08-25-19
- We've Got People
- From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
- De: Ryan Grim
- Narrado por: Sean W. Stewart
Very good history of the Progressive resurgence
Revisado: 07-10-20
Ryan Grim does a great job of highlighting how the modern progressive movement got its legs, made its first steps and stumbles, and began to find its own stride.
Grim’s inside knowledge of political workings lets him give a fair evaluation of what strategies have worked for the movement, which ones didn’t, and why. He’s gotten to watch and interact with the people involved so is able to point out how they grew along with the movement itself.
There are a few places, usually when Grim dives into the particulars of multiple individual actors’ machinations, when it bogs down a bit. He’ll introduce all the people playing against each other in one of the events he covers and it can be a hassle to keep track of who they all are, what they’re doing to each other, and how it feeds back into the bigger narrative.
Overall it was a great read, very informative, and provides a good look inside what a political movement is actually like.
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The End of Policing
- De: Alex S. Vitale
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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This audiobook attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice - even public safety. Drawing on groundbreaking research from across the world, and covering virtually every area in the increasingly broad range of police work, Alex Vitale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.
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Preaching to the choir
- De Daniel A. Boyd en 08-09-19
- The End of Policing
- De: Alex S. Vitale
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
Rethinking what we think is normal
Revisado: 07-06-20
Alex Vitale breaks down the problems with policing as it is done in the U.S. today but also traces how that system developed and why. Placed in historical perspective the current situation’s untenable nature is even more apparent.
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Hate Inc.
- Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
- De: Matt Taibbi
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. In the internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.
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Political book by an honest journalist!
- De Wayne en 05-31-20
- Hate Inc.
- Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
- De: Matt Taibbi
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
Required reading in these times
Revisado: 07-06-20
This book should be required reading before watching any news in today’s media environment. I can now look at any event that happens, apply the Ten Rules Of Hate, and know in advance whether it will be covered on the news and how each “team” will report it.
Matt Taibbi explains the massive shift that happened to news coverage. His breakdown of the situation is well structured and his explanations are well worded. The insider perspective that he brings gives it just that much more clarity.
Like Mr. Taibbi I loved “Manufacturing Consent.” I still do. But it’s quite dated now and was always, in my opinion, a bit academic for some readers. “Hate, Inc.” is very accessible and very timely.
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