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Contrasting And Synthesizing Perspectives On Late Stage Capitalism And The French Revolution, Alyssa Allen
Contrasting And Synthesizing Perspectives On Late Stage Capitalism And The French Revolution, Alyssa Allen
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The modern-day American wealth inequality epidemic coupled with the effective silencing of the masses through superdelegates and the Electoral College fosters conditions akin to Pre-Revolutionary France with the bourgeoisie being oppressed through wealth inequality and the Estate System.
The Lives Of The Other(S): The Instability Of Foreignness In Deutschland 83, Phillip J. Jones
The Lives Of The Other(S): The Instability Of Foreignness In Deutschland 83, Phillip J. Jones
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Set in Germany at a hot moment in the Cold War, with the Able Archer exercises and downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007 etched in sharp relief, Deutschland 83 is an entertaining spy drama—and considerably more. The critical viewer will find surprises in the first Germanophone series on American television. The hero is an East German spy who goes undercover on a West German military base, and his crossings over the iconic border are not the only traversals as he forms relationships and acculturates to a “foreign” land. Deutschland 83 performs a neat trick: while the series powerfully reconstructs a …