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]]> Frank Capra’s Formula for Taming American Capitalism https://brewminate.com/frank-capras-formula-for-taming-american-capitalism/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:34:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=102850 It’s a Wonderful Life prescribed community and empathy as the remedy to a callous economic system. From the

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]]> Get Thee to a Phalanstery: or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade https://brewminate.com/get-thee-to-a-phalanstery-or-how-fourier-can-still-teach-us-to-make-lemonade/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:34:47 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=96389 Hot on the heels of the French revolution — by way of extravagant orgies, obscure taxonomies, and lemonade

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]]> Socialism and the Vampire: Comrades, Capitalists, and Bloodsuckers https://brewminate.com/socialism-and-the-vampire-comrades-capitalists-and-bloodsuckers/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:42:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=89719 Vampire fiction as class allegory predates Dracula. In May 1897 Constable and Co published a limited print run

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]]> The Midwest Farmers Movement That Challenged Gilded Age Capitalism https://brewminate.com/the-midwest-farmers-movement-that-challenged-gilded-age-capitalism/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:41:05 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=83861 In the 19th century, the Grange was an agricultural brotherhood that sought to foster mutual self-reliance and free

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