Are There Lessons to Be Learned From Herman Husband's Revolt?

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Herman husband's ideas are, they're more real than they were at the time, for sure. I have a weird feeling that, you know, did I publish that book 10 years ago? Yeah, I mean, and now I'm publishing again on on some of the same issues in a different way. But I feel like there's more going on now than there was the occupy was happening then.

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