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My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

temporarily broadcasting from Santiago de Chile. As Marx wrote in the 18th Frumair of Louis Bonaparte, humans make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

They do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given

and transmitted from the past.

Their tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

A nightmare indeed, but what's so remarkable about right now is that decades if not centuries

of built up contradictions of American political economy

have become impossible to provisionally resolve.

The old order remains in place, but it has lost its trappings of naturalness, inevitability, and permanence.

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