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it appears that the appeal is not so much the religious rhetoric but the promise of an alternative to capitalism.

— Gillian Slovo

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The consequences of marginalizing people on the basis of what they wear or what they say is very dangerous.

“When you write a memoir you have to think about your responsibility to your audience that you’d be completely honest, and to people in your life. Your honesty is going to affect them.”

Anyone feeling vulnerable can feel attracted to the “idealistic world

“ask questions that they might not be asking of themselves” because as she says

“If our response is to stop people in our societies from saying things they don’t want us to say, we are falling into their trap

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.

Dennis Mueller The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism (2012)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

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