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“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end of History.…

— Tony Judt

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker…

— Robert Reich

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better and nations…

— Mike Quigley

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living…

— Kshama Sawant

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

— Suzanne Fields

But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this is not…

— Olga Tokarczuk

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

— Fran Lebowitz

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic…

— Joe Slovo

A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to…

— Ellen Willis

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against…

— Adam Curtis

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a…

— Thomas Sowell