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1. Chthonic Librarian Socialism (syndikalista@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2019 12:37:39 UTC Chthonic Librarian Socialism

   The West was not florishing in the 1970s. Rahter, it found itself confronted by recessions, rising unemployment (due to abolishing of keynsian economic strategies), and price inflation. the oil crisis of 1973-73 exacerbated these difficulties, but did not cause them. Much like the East, the *west was reaching the limits of energy intensive industrial growth* and one can argue, that it does until today.

   • Chthonic Librarian Socialism (syndikalista@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2019 13:15:19 UTC Chthonic Librarian Socialism

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     "The 1963 (...) communications link between the Kremlin and the White House – the iconic “red telephone” (...) was, in fact, neither red nor a telephone (...)"

     Source: McNeill, J. R., und Kenneth Pomeranz, Hrsg. The Cambridge World History.
     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316182789.