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Maria Sause: growing up in Chile and then San Francisco grafted her life toward socialism by Paul Haeder / December 12th, 2020 Before heading over to interview this subject, I was thinking of a possible epigraph for the piece. One from a Chilean: Discovery is not seeing what there is (that is impossible at any level), but rather allowing oneself to converge towards a continually freshly-created reality. ― Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef,  Then I thought – Why not a female Chilean poet? Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this wor...

ORIENTATION Name me one country where socialism works When I first considered myself a socialist revolutionary in 1970, I was hounded by free marketers’ challenge: “name me one country where socialism works”. These market fundamentalists would then hold up the most strident expectations for socialism: Everyone is exactly equal with no classes. There is an abundance of goods which are conveniently circulated. Political rule is not dictatorial. All competition is banished. People are working together, collectively and creatively. The state has withered away. Anything less than this was pr...

i think many of you know it's oliver who is the problem. [laughter] so in order to introduce oliveira, we are going to see it initially a four-minute film grail of his work, just to acquaint you. prepared by the savanna film festival. okay guys, one. b. is not -- does not -- ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you don't want the war? we don't want the war.a%i$ the vietnamese don't want the war. so why is the war? >> you intend to cooperate with senator irving's committee? >> mr. president, mr. president! >> teeny-weeny -- >> we've got a position in. >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, greed is goo...

i think many of you know it's oliver who is the problem. [laughter] so in order to introduce oliveira, we are going to see it initially a four-minute film grail of his work, just to acquaint you. prepared by the savanna film festival. okay guys, one. b. is not -- does not -- ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you don't want the war? we don't want the war.a%i$ the vietnamese don't want the war. so why is the war? >> you intend to cooperate with senator irving's committee? >> mr. president, mr. president! >> teeny-weeny -- >> we've got a position in. >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, greed is goo...

next on booktv, encore booknotes. michael parenti talk about his book, "the assassination of julius caesar" a people's history of ancient intrigue. a lot of struggles going on. interesting personalities emerging. some giant figures like ceasar, cicero, and it was a compelling story. and then i also thought the way it was told, mostly, was, wasn't the whole story. and i wanted to give a different interpretation. i think the evidence suggested that. >> i want to go to chapter nine which is the assassination. tell that story, then we will go back and pick up on the whole dates and every...