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...book challenges our assumptions about how these images work. As a political Black feminist who boldly declares herself an enemy of America's "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy," hooks speaks from standpoint truly oppositional to most mainstream thought. She tirelessly interrogates the institutions most people take for granted. As she writes in her introduction, these essays are "gestures of defiance...find[ing] words that express what I see, especially when I am looking in ways that move against the grain, when I seeing things that most folks want to simply believe are not there...
...Gorbachev was laying to rest the cold war at Fulton, Mo., the place where Winston Churchill declared it back in 1946. That vision must have disturbed many older- generation Soviets nurtured on the ideological red meat of East versus West, of a Soviet Russia saving the world from its capitalist original...
Just before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, it looked as though the Westernizers had decisively won. Russia was by then a Western-oriented constitutional monarchy with the fastest-growing capitalist economy in Europe. Yet two years later, the Bolsheviks were declaring ideological war on Europe...
...Bill Buckner, and the thrilling smells of my youth proved anathema to a crucial segment of the baseball card market: professional card dealers. To his credit, Boyle confessed as much. And it's sad. The little kid is deprived of his soul-soothing scent so the big bad capitalist can protect his investment. Ain't that America...
ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN capitalist gospel, it is no sin to go belly up. Quite to the contrary, U.S. firms enjoy the most liberal bankruptcy laws on earth -- a privilege strengthened by a provision of the code known as Chapter 11 that holds creditors at bay while often allowing sick firms to bleed new buckets of red ink and still operate for years...