Art for the End Times: 'Why leftists should read Marilynne Robinson—despite her sins'
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A Novel About Nuclear Pollution
She's pursued this kind of course of self re education because she felt like what she got in an college and graduate school wath a lot of truisms from people who ere kind of fronting am. She apparently read alive marks capital and then like, checked all the footnotes to see anag so thorough yese. So her second book is about nuclear pollution. It's a viciously anti nature book, a beautifully antinatr but it's also you know, look beautifully dismissive off the idea that wages must always inevitably fall to the level of subsistence. I mean, really, the whole history of political economy, the only writers on political economy that she doesn't are marks
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