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Really it feels like they had a vocabulary list of anticapitalist terms and names to include in a separate assignment.

Just dropping all of the communist bits and stating /how/ and /why/ capitalism pushes optimism would give it some intergration. It would at least fit in as a "novel or less commonly listed flaw of capitalism" instead of just including the list of top down beliefs as articles of faith.

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The voice in the article is an ordinary every-day frame of reference for Eastern Europeans; you're simply reacting to the lack of an American Capitalist frame of reference and the every-day American talking points.

In Eastern Europe everyone interjects assertions that don’t follow from any part of the discussion? Because that is the article’s approach to connecting topics of late capitalism and gender/queer issues and structural inequality. They are disjointedly introduced in an unmotivated, ungrounded way that violates basic, universal conventions of successful writing and communication in all nationalities.

I really doubt what you are saying here. Eastern Europeans are just as capable of logical trains of thought supported by compelling writing and evidence as anyone else in the world - which is very different from this article.

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